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Imitate Real Ale quaffers, save the economy, says biz prof • The Register
Imitate Real Ale quaffers, save the economy, says biz prof • The Register
Top economics'n'biz brainboxes, having performed a detailed analysis, have announced that the way for the UK economy to revitalise itself is for us all to emulate beer-swilling real ale drinkers.
“The fact is that the business world can learn an enormous amount from our beer buffs," insists Professor Peter Swann of the Nottingham University Business School (NUBS).
"The range of products and the number of centres of production in brewing in England declined dramatically between 1900 and 1970," continues the prof.
“As is widely accepted, that process began to reverse with the formation of CAMRA* and its fight against bland, mass-produced beers. This has led us to the position we’re in now, with hundreds of small breweries spread all over the country and making thousands of different beers. In technical terms, this represents horizontal product differentiation and a reduction in the importance of the economies of scale.
“That’s basically a clever way of saying variety is the spice of life and that more discerning tastes can be good for the economy.”
The 1950s and 60s were frightful times indeed, a nadir for British culture. By 1970 the number of breweries in England was just 141 — compared to 1,324 in 1900. Small village breweries had been forced out of existence by bloated factories pumping out dross, aided by low transport costs.
But nowadays Blighty's beer lovers have bootstrapped the country up out of the awful 1970s. Microbreweries, making interesting beer on short production runs, are enjoying a boom. As of 2004 we had 480 breweries and the number is still climbing.
“We’re often told small businesses will be key to the UK’s financial recovery," says Prof Swann.
“The fall and rise of the local brew offers us a perfect example of ‘small is beautiful’, so it’s vital to see what lessons we can learn from it. One of the most important is that a demand for the predictable can lead to the greater geographical concentration of an industry.
“By contrast, a demand for diversity can lead to greater geographic dispersion — which is the excellent position brewing finds itself in now. CAMRA and the microbreweries should serve as an economic inspiration — and I say that as a man who doesn’t even like beer.”
So there you have it. Get some patches sewn on the sleeves of your jacket, let that beard grow, and get yourself outside a few foaming tankards of Old Parson's Nut-Brown Finger or whatever. It's your patriotic duty.
Full details from NUBS here. ®
*Note for overseas/younger readers: The CAMpaign for Real Ale.
Thursday, July 8, 2010
Free will theorem - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Free will theorem - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: "The free will theorem of John H. Conway and Simon B. Kochen states that, if we have a certain amount of 'free will', then, subject to certain assumptions, so must some elementary particles. Conway and Kochen's paper was published in Foundations of Physics in 2006.[1]"
TRE — The free and portable approximate regex matching library.
TRE — The free and portable approximate regex matching library.: "TRE 0.8.0 Released
by VILLE LAURIKARI on SEPTEMBER 20, 2009"
by VILLE LAURIKARI on SEPTEMBER 20, 2009"
Saturday, June 12, 2010
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Black Hole House – Houston, TX � Golden Years, My @$$
Black Hole House – Houston, TX � Golden Years, My @$$: "Black Hole House – Houston,�TX"
Tuesday, May 18, 2010
Automatically close personal.xlsb in Excel Programming
Automatically close personal.xlsb in Excel Programming: "If I follow, that's nothing to do with your personal (but why the addin
Peter T posted on Monday, April 06, 2009 6:36 AM
If I follow, that's nothing to do with your personal (but why the addin
extension xlsb). To simulate the way the little-x close-everything button
worked in previous versions try double clicking the large Office icon top
left.
Regards,
Peter T"
Peter T posted on Monday, April 06, 2009 6:36 AM
If I follow, that's nothing to do with your personal (but why the addin
extension xlsb). To simulate the way the little-x close-everything button
worked in previous versions try double clicking the large Office icon top
left.
Regards,
Peter T"
Tuesday, May 11, 2010
101 things you never knew you could do with Matroska < WALLS OF TL;DR
101 things you never knew you could do with Matroska < WALLS OF TL;DR: "Today on the Fluffy Channel: magic tricks with the Matroska container. Namely, editions, file linking and ordered chapters. (WARNING: very large amounts of techobabble walls of text ahead.)"
Monday, May 10, 2010
Eight Miles Higher: Flashback: Poetry Of The 1970's
Eight Miles Higher: Flashback: Poetry Of The 1970's: "Elsewhere, Tina Fulker’s debut issue of ‘Moonshine’ was typed directly onto oblongs of cut-up wall-paper and stapled together as demand required."
INDUSTRIAL::MUSIC::LIBRARY: Wild Planet! - (1983 article about Industrial music)
INDUSTRIAL::MUSIC::LIBRARY: Wild Planet! - (1983 article about Industrial music): "INA FULKER: Extending the boundaries of poetry, to a certain degree by releasing a thirty minute selection of her work, 'Dial My Number' with off the wall backing tracks by an array of musicians including Pete Becker of Eyeless In Gaza. Further information and tape available from: 20, Frith House, Frampton Street, London, NW8."
Sunday, April 25, 2010
AWS SDK for .NET
AWS SDK for .NET
The starting page for the Amazon S3 + EC2 SDK for .NET.
Contains downloads, example code, documentation,
+ Visual Studio templates for Console, Web and Empty projects.
Sunday, April 4, 2010
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Sunday, March 21, 2010
Google, Gmail, and Google Apps Accounts Explained | Smarterware
Google, Gmail, and Google Apps Accounts Explained | Smarterware
A detailed explanation of how all google accounts are one google account,
so if you ahev more than one then either you or google (or both) will be confused.
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