Western Province
Western Province province (1990 pop. 607,497), c.63,000 sq mi (163,170 sq km), W Zambia. The capital is Mongu. The area, covered mostly by savanna, is drained by the Zambezi River. Livestock and grain are raised, and teak is produced. In the early 19th cent. the province was the site of the kingdom of the Lozi (or Barotse) people; they were conquered in 1838 by Kalolo invaders from what is now Lesotho, but regained power in 1864. In 1890 and 1900, Lewanika, the Lozi paramount chief, signed treaties with the British South Africa Company, which gave the company extensive trading and mining rights. As Barotseland the area became (1911) a province of the British protectorate of Northern Rhodesia, although it retained considerable autonomy. There was some separatist sentiment among the Lozi after Northern Rhodesia became independent as Zambia in 1964. The province was renamed after independence.
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Elasticity
Encyclopedia entry from: International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences
Elasticity In economics, elasticity measures a response of one variable to changes in the other variable. The concept of elasticity can be applied to any two variables, but the most commonly...
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elasticity
Book article from: World Encyclopedia
elasticity Capability of a material to recover its size and shape after deformation by stress and strain. When an external force is applied...
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Substitutability
Encyclopedia entry from: International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences
...where η ij is the elasticity of demand of good i with...good j , E i is the income elasticity of demand of good i, and...above equation are the Allen elasticities of substitution, so that...as where denotes the Allen elasticity of substitution between goods...
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Markup Pricing
Encyclopedia entry from: International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences
...markup is thought to be determined by the elasticity of demand. The post-Keynesian theory...dy / dp ) ǀ > 1 is the elasticity of demand in absolute value. Because...x3B7; D is never positive. The elasticity of demand must be greater than 1 in...
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Kolosov, Gury Vasilievich
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography
...began his career; and the theory of elasticity, on which he worked almost exclusively...x2019; s main results in the theory of elasticity are contained in his classic work Ob...Problem of the Mathematical Theory of Elasticity, ” 1909). Kolosov ’...
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