Now, it's leading to brand-new consumer products, many of whose benefits are unmeasured or unmeasurable.
How often discrimination occurs is unmeasured and perhaps unmeasurable, Dr. Williams said.
Companies like to say that they aim for the third approach, but they do not always find it easy.In the end, though, do knowledge workers not always contribute something that is unmeasurable?
The longer-term danger, which is no less acute for being unmeasurable, is that the young financier from Madrid, Manhattan or Mumbai will decide not to come to London in the first place.As a means of bringing in revenue, the 50% rate was never very efficient.
Love, hate, envy, greed these remain the strongest motives for murder.Fortunately for the crime writer, these elements are as yet unmeasurable by science, and the globalisation of crime provides new opportunities to put the detective into unfamiliar settings where techno-gadgetry becomes useless and understanding of different cultural mores and motive is key.
At one level, sort of; at another level, if you think value is purely subjective and unmeasurable, then you shouldn't be reading a publication called "The Economist").Anyway.Anyway
But that is virtually unmeasurable, and would anyway lead simply to artificially "good" behaviour in the run-up to an assessment of trading relations, as has always happened in recent years when the vote on China's "most-favoured nation" trading status was approaching.
Frank Knight gave his name to "Knightian uncertainty" thanks to his 1921 book, "Risk, Uncertainty and Profit", which noted that most business decisions involve a step into an unknown that is to some degree unmeasurable.
Mr Davies, the co-founder of New Philanthropy Capital, concedes that measurement is difficult, but insists it is not impossible: "Some of these things from an economic point of view are unmeasurable, but no more so than measuring GDP in the service sector, which we do, though it is very hard".The second requirement is greater transparency.
Is value itself "purely subjective", unmeasurable and thus not worth talking about?
Indeed, its future need for equity capital is unmeasurable.
