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Letter from Alexander Merchant, Department of State, Division of the American Republics, to DCR-W, November 9, 1943
No full textIn this letter, the author expresses his favorable opinion of Mr. Emmerson's report on the Japanese of Peru. Merchant praises his "extensive use of Japanese-language," and Spanish language materials as well.Collection of notes, articles, correspondence, photographs, and term papers collected by Yukio Mochizuki, a student at CSU Dominguez Hills, while researching Japanese American incarceration and Japanese Peruvian internment during World War II
Debates in AI Symposium: Brian Merchant, What\u27s Work Got to Do With It?
No full textBrian Merchant, a technology journalist and former tech columnist at the LA Times, is widely recognized for his insightful analysis of automation, labor and technology’s environmental impact. Merchant is author of the bestselling The One Device (Little, Brown and Company, 2017) and most recently Blood in the Machine: The Origins of the Rebellion Against Big Tech (Little, Brown and Company, 2023). This new book explores the Luddites’ misunderstood uprising and the modern implications of tech deployment. In addition to writing for prominent publications, Merchant founded Terraform, VICE’s speculative fiction site. He shares updates and discussions on technology’s societal impact through his newsletter, offering a critical perspective on who technology serves and its broader consequences
The Cantelowe Accounts - Multilingual merchant records from Tuscany, 1450-1451
No full textThe Cantelowe Accounts appear to offer the earliest evidence of an English merchant using Italian as a second language. They were written by John Balmayn, an unknown Londoner, who travelled to Tuscany to oversee the sale of a valuable wool shipment in 1450-51 on behalf of his master - the Mercer, Sir William Cantelowe. The author uses an intriguing mix of four languages, combining Middle English, Latin and Anglo-French with the administrative Tuscan that he has learnt working alongside Florentine partners, such as the Salviati company. Two other striking features of the text are the extensive use of Arabic numerals, unparalleled in fifteenth-century English accounting, and the unusually detailed descriptions of merchant marks that were used to identify the woolsacks. Overall, the accounts are unique amongst multilingual medieval sources and will interest economic historians and historical linguists alike
Regulating two-sided markets: an empirical investigation
No full textWe study the effect of government encouraged or mandated interchange fee ceilings on consumer and merchant adoption and usage of payment cards in an economy where card acceptance is far from complete. We believe that we are the first to use bank-level data to study the impact of interchange fee regulation. We find that consumer and merchant welfare improved because of increased consumer and merchant adoption leading to greater usage of payment cards. We also find that bank revenues increased when interchange fees were reduced although these results are critically dependent on merchant acceptance being far from complete at the beginning and during the implementation of interchange fee ceilings. In addition, there is most likely a threshold interchange fee below which social welfare decreases although our data currently does not allow us to quantify it. JEL Classification: L11, G21, D53consumer payment choice, merchant payment adoption, network competition
Commission trading allowed Italian merchant banks to flourish in the 16th century
No full textIt also enabled commercial firms to respond to the intense and fluctuating demand of international hubs, writes Nadia Matring
[Intervention] The hidden face of public debt in 16th century France (Nadia Matringe)
No full text22 janvier 2016 Kolloquium Westeuropäische Geschichte Historisches Seminar. Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München Dans le cadre d'un workshop organisé par le Prof. Dr. Mark Hengerer, intervention de Nadia Matringe : The hidden face of public debt in 16th century France. Merchant banks and the organization of the loan market Programme du workshop (pdf
Northwind Merchant Company
No full text11 p.The author describes his experience developing a small internet retail business selling printer cartidges.Northwind Merchant Company. Morrison, Colorado
[Texte libre] Italian enterprise, the Lyons market and Europe in the 16th century (Nadia Matringe)
No full textOn the open Archive HAL (https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01376917) Book summary of : Nadia MATRINGE, La Banque en Renaissance. Les Salviati et la place de Lyon au milieu du XVIe siècle, Rennes, Presses universitaires de Rennes, 2016, 416 p. ISBN 978-2-7535-4956-2. Abstract The existence of a powerful Italian merchant community in 16th century Lyons raises, from an economic history perspective, questions related to the convergence of opportunities offered by the marketplace and the commer..
The Implied Warranty of Habitability and the Non-Merchant Landlord
No full textThis article examines the issue of whether the implied warranty of habitability should be imposed on non-merchant landlords. The author explores the rationales which supported the creation of the warranty, examines the content of the warranty and discusses the reasons for the requirement of merchant status in product liability law. Finally, the author concludes that the policies of the implied warranty of habitability would most readily be served by its application to non-merchant landlords in a contract context and in a tort context predicated upon a negligence standard
Merchant internalization revisited
No full textAbstractMerchant internalization has been proposed as a key reason for biases in the setting of fees in payment card platforms. It has been shown to hold under several specific models of imperfect competition. This paper unifies and extends the existing payment card literature by showing that merchant internalization holds under a very general model of competition
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