Discover how base periods serve as benchmarks to analyze variable changes over time. Learn their role in economics and finance, and see practical examples.

The first objective of this article is to examine one aspect of the principle of proportionality (PP) as advanced by Alan Gewirth in his 1978 book Reason and Morality. Gewirth claims that being ...

What Thomas Aquinas and the principles of just war theory tell us about where responsibility lies for the deaths of many thousands of non-combatants. The political theorist Michael Walzer has observed ...

I recently explained how the decision is patently narrow, applying only to age-verification mandates targeting access to sexual content that, in Justice Clarence Thomas’s words for the majority, “the ...

1 Department of Pediatrics, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA 2 Division of Environmental Health Sciences, School of Public Health, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, ...

Adam Hayes, Ph.D., CFA, is a financial writer with 15+ years Wall Street experience as a derivatives trader. Besides his extensive derivative trading expertise, Adam is an expert in economics and ...

Recently, the Constitution Reform Commission (CRC) has made certain reform proposals to be brought to the Constitution. Two main reforms are central to the CRC's proposal relating to fundamental ...

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Last year, the Florida Supreme Court adopted comprehensive changes to the Florida Rules of Civil Procedure. These changes took effect on Jan. 1, 2025. There is much to unpack in the new rules. Parties ...

Abstract: Large-scale renewable energy grid-connection will lead to a serious weakening of the inertia level of the power grid, which will have a non-negligible impact on the frequency stability of ...

When an absolute number doesn't adequately describe a scenario, proportions help fill the gap by describing the number with respect to a total. As an example, knowing that 30 orders were for a ...