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The economy of our nation differs today from that of World War II or pre-World War II days by the fact that a war-production program is being carried on without adversely affecting the production or civilian goods, At the same time management is confronted with rising costs due to the inflationary spiral of wanes and materials. To mire a profit on Products and remain in competition, management is forced to apply the latest cost reduction methods. Because of the dual economy, companies are quoting on civilian goods and war Products. Contracts released by the government specify that; adequate inspection and quality control procedures should be available in plants or that a procedure should be available if a contract is desired. During World War II statistical quality control was initiated in a considerable number of plants. Programs of training were sponsored by the War Production Board. The Department of Defense has a Military Standard (MIL-STD-105A) stressing procedures for statistical inspection, and the American War Standards Association has issued requirements for quality control. Today's literature is abundant with featured articles in the leading trade journals stressing Quality control and its cost reduction aspects. Thus, quality control methods have become a prominent part of management today and are assuming equal importance with such cost reduction methods as time and motion study, methods and plant layout. This thesis deals with the practical aspects of Inspection and Quality Control as a means of cost reduction. in establishing the present need for cost reduction by inspection and quality control the discussion is centered on cost of rejects in a small plant hereinafter referred to as "the company" or "the plant". A small company employing approximately 200 employees has been selected. The company is a job shop and manufactures sheet metal products. Large and small companies have successfully employed statistical methods with reductions in costs. Therefore, it is the purpose of this thesis to present ...

The article outlines the positive and negative effects as well as the policy context of Hungary's residential energy cost reduction programme initiated in 2013. This programme has occupied a permanent and high-profile place on Hungary's political agenda and has been shaping the country's economic policy, energy policy and the everyday lives of Hungarian households. Both quantitative and qualitative methods are applied. The logarithmic mean Divisia index (LMDI) method is applied to decompose the absolute change in residential energy consumption between 2010 and 2017. The results show that decreasing energy prices for households had a positive impact on their energy use only in the first few years of the programme's implementation. The authors conclude that the programme was realised without the necessary policy background. A significantly declining ratio of residential expenditure on energy services in total expenditure, decreased inflation rate and considerably improved socio-economic situation of the majority of the population are identified as positive effects. However, the programme discourages energy conservation and energy efficiency, erodes the competitiveness of renewables, reduces capital formation in the energy sector, deteriorates security of supply, and increases energy prices for non-household customers

Overall, the CCRA would take us closer to where we need to be – ideally, no federal aid – but it could go much further.

Standard Oil was founded by John D. Rockefeller and later dismantled by the US Supreme Court in 1911 for attempting to monopolize the market of the refined-oil kerosene. The objective of this thesis is to determine if the Supreme Court's accusations relating to predatory pricing were based on facts; or did the government make groundless denunciations due to pressure from society at the time. My objective revolves a historical case study that can be understood with economic theory. I intend to use empirical information from historical data about the growth of the company to determine whether the accusation of employing predatory pricing with an attempt to monopolize the market of kerosene is based on facts. Given that this is essentially a case study and the focus on the topic will be from a historical point of view, I will compliment this empiricism with economic theories and several key assumptions in order to understand the implications of the subject.