Practical Law Dictionary. Glossary of UK, US and international legal terms. www.practicallaw.com. 2010.
Incentive program — An incentive program is a formal scheme used to promote or encourage specific actions or behavior by a specific audience during a defined period of time. HistoryAlthough incentive programs have been around for more than 100 years, it wasn’t until … Wikipedia
Incentive — For the video game developer and publisher, see Incentive Software. For the independent record label, see Incentive Records. In economics and sociology, an incentive is any factor (financial or non financial) that enables or motivates a… … Wikipedia
Copyright Term Extension Act — Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act Full title To amend the provisions of title 17, United States Code, with respect to the duration of copyright, and for other purposes. Acronym CTEA Enacted by the 105th United States Congress … Wikipedia
Perverse incentive — A perverse incentive is an incentive that has an unintended and undesirable effect, that is against the interest of the incentive makers. Perverse incentives by definition produce negative unintended consequences. It is a term first coined by… … Wikipedia
marketing — /mahr ki ting/, n. 1. the act of buying or selling in a market. 2. the total of activities involved in the transfer of goods from the producer or seller to the consumer or buyer, including advertising, shipping, storing, and selling. [1555 65;… … Universalium
The Evolution of Cooperation — the title of a 1981 article and a related 1984 book by political science professor Robert Axelrod. The nine page article, co written with the late evolutionary biologist William D. Hamilton, has garnered 1354 citations in peer reviewed journals… … Wikipedia
Sales promotion — Marketing Key concepts Product marketing · Pricing … Wikipedia
Economic Affairs — ▪ 2006 Introduction In 2005 rising U.S. deficits, tight monetary policies, and higher oil prices triggered by hurricane damage in the Gulf of Mexico were moderating influences on the world economy and on U.S. stock markets, but some other… … Universalium
Recall (memory) — Recollection redirects here. For other uses, see Recollection (disambiguation). Recall in memory refers to the retrieval of events or information from the past. Along with encoding and storage, it is one of the three core processes of memory.… … Wikipedia
Hedge fund — A hedge fund is a private investment fund open to a limited range of investors which is permitted by regulators to undertake a wider range of activities than other investment funds and which pays a performance fee to its investment manager.… … Wikipedia
