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Effectiveness is partly subjective (health care is what economists would call an experience good ), and ratings of it should be based partly on patients and families own experiences and views. FFowever, patients may be poorly placed to express their views reliably because of their symptoms, or reluctant to do so because of the compulsory nature of their care or their fear of psychiatry or chemical coshes . Sometimes families or caregivers, too, may not make reliable raters they may not be as disinterested as one would like. 

Furthermore, and this is linked to the complete preferences, the hypothetical market environmental goods and services is not a market under perfect competition. The existence of externalities is one reason for this, which is why environmental economists try to value externalities. But the condition of perfect knowledge isn t there either. The reason is simple we still don t have all the information about environmental degradation and risks associated with the use of, for example, chemicals. 

The Russian economist, Kondratiev, has analysed the waves in world economic growth from the invention of the steam engine and cotton production to the rise of the chemical and automotive industries in post-war time and the contemporary emergence of the information society. Figure 19.1 illustrates the five cycles that have been identified since the eighteenth century. 

Processes are called autocatalytic if the products of a reaction accelerate their own formation. Autocatalytic reactions get faster as the reaction proceeds, sometimes dramatically, sometimes slowly and steadily. Exponential growth is a very basic non-chemical example. Of course the acceleration cannot be permanent the reaction will slow down and eventually come to an end once the starting materials have been used up. Only economists believe in sustainable growth. 

As a further activity the Austrian Federal Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry, Environment and Water Management (BMLFUW) in co-operation with the OECD organised an international conference in Vienna in November 2003, which was called "Experiences and Perspectives of Service-oriented Strategies in the Chemicals Industry and Related Areas". The conference was attended by around 100 participants from 16 countries. The conference gave an excellent overview about international approaches how to introduce service elements into the chemical business. The participants comprised representatives from authorities, the chemical industry, in particular down stream users, process engineers and economists along with representatives from academia. 

It was natural that the war should be followed by a wave of anti-war feeling. The war had done what the writing of the economists had failed to do it had demonstrated that modern warfare brought loss on a colossal scale to the victors as well as the vanquished. The establishment of the League of Nations, and its early activities, showed a general determination to find an alternative to war for the settlement of international disputes. Nevertheless, the calls for worldwide disarmament continued and eventually legislation was passed in an effort to limit chemical weapons. 

There is sometimes a conflict between what society demands and what chemists are able to deliver. For example, perhaps the bonanza of North Sea oil would have gone further if the organic chemists had had their way, rather than the economists who encouraged the government to make a quick buck selling off the oil as fuels. A lot of valuable and irreplaceable chemicals were lost by burning up our coal, oil and natural gas rather than using more of it to synthesise polymers and fibres. The hydrocarbons have been burned into carbon dioxide gas and water and all the special properties of the useful materials lost for ever. Natmal gas is... 

Moody s International Manual (1995), pp. 63-66, has details on Id s assets and current product lines. The Economist, May 10, 1997, p. 63, reviews the bid for Unilever s specialty chemical division. Additional details can be found at Hoover s Online, May 2002. 

Foreign trade in chemicals is influenced greatly by trade tariffs. A tariff is a charge imposed by a government on imports and occasionally on exports. Free-market economists strongly oppose tariffs, but they are a fact of life and are imposed for the following reasons ... 

The problem that increasingly occupied his mind and that he worked on in his laboratory had to do with the chemical nature of air. He had been fascinated by an article in Diderot s Encyclopedic concerning the property of air (and generally of vapors) of being expansible or elastic as it was often called at this time. The anonymous article, probably written by the well-known economist, philosopher and politician Robert Jacques Turgot, suggested that matter could exist either as a solid, a liquid or a gas, depending on how much fire it is combined with. This... 

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