It's good to see this material again, first, because it's clever and funny, and second, because it's a reminder of where so many recent art-as-commodity ideas that are touted as fresh and radical came from.
(Companies like G.E., Nike and Apple learned early on that the real money was in the creative ideas that can transform simple physical products far beyond their generic or commodity value).
With water likely to become a scarce commodity, the idea that we will continue to have it pumped into our homes seems obscene".
Consider the first of the two big ideas that he outlined this week: easing global imbalances and currency tensions, and curbing volatility in commodity markets.
To help encourage innovation, there is now a revival of interest in industrial policy partly because of worries about Dutch disease and commodity dependence.The idea that governments should help particular companies or industries went out of fashion in the region a generation ago, mainly because it had been taken to extremes.
One bad idea, that university museums are expendable commodities, remains alive in our collective system.
Ingredients in the NND primarily consisted of Danish/Nordic produced commodities and commodities that were in season.
The professors' work has found an audience among investment firms and helped popularize the idea that commodities futures have a place in retail investors' portfolios.
I would probably buy Russia on the idea that commodities will continue to go up, and that should be good for Russia.
"It does take a while before users of a commodity get comfortable with the idea that they should risk-manage and out-source their use of that commodity".
Men instantly grasped the idea that various commodities were being rationed because supplies were dwindling & that there was no other way of seeing that everybody got his fair share of what was left.
