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What are the current market conditions for dolls and stuffed toys?
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In 2000, according to the U.S. Census Bureau, doll and stuffed toy industry shipments totaled $329 million, down from $343 million in 1999.
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How does invisible hand create wealth?
The invisible hand was posited by Adam Smith in his 1776 book, The Wealth of Nations. To be more specific, the "invisible hand" is used to suggest the appearance of order that comes about when everyone acts in their own economic self-interest. He uses an example of a baker: Why does a baker rise each morning and bake his bread? Adam Smith answers that it is not because he cares about you and wants you to have bread, but because he wants to sell his bread, and thereby earn money. When everyone follows their economic self interest things fall into place. How? Well, think about it. If you want to make some money you must sell a good or a service. Suppose you want to sell dolls but no one in your town wants to buy any. Very quickly you will have to switch appsoaches and sell something people want to buy. Maybe you'll choose to sell hamburgers, or corn, or shoes. In this situation, your own self interest (to make money) has forced you into the production of something that society needs. This is the case for every individual in the society. People begin to produce things as cheaply and efficiently as possible, and so long as those things are desired they will be bought, if they can be afforded. So as you can see, self interest leads entreprenuers to produce wealth, in the form of commodities. Of course, he makes a profit and that enables him to spend or to reinvest. In this way the invisible hand of self interest produces wealth.
What is the labor Intensive Technique in Economics?
(A) Slavery or (B) Low wage sweatshops. This is opposed to high technology automation of factories by robotics and advanced production line machinery and computerized machine tools. In the 1960s North American school children were shown pictures of road construction in China. In the picture there would be several thousands or even tens of thousands of manual laborers picking up rocks and walking over with them to drop them off elsewhere. This meant that people were in such plentiful supply that it was less expensive to have tens of thousands of workers possibly injuring themselves doing manual labor than to have a high technology grater, powered back hoe, and powered roller operated by a small handful of expert road work crew to make the roadways. No doubt the manual labor work was more dangerous and probably involved people dying from terrible accidents. This meant that human life was cheap also. That the leaders there did not value the lives of their workers because the injured or dead workers could be replaced many times over with others waiting to work. The same kind of work would be happening in other countries that were over populated like India where the people at that time were very poor and had terrible living conditions, would drink from polluted puddles of water and get sick. The first world of industrialized, wealthier nations has seen in the years since 1980 a rise in the number of free-trade agreements and trade zone liberalizations that have reduced the democratically elected laws, and sovereignty of these nations that ends up with the manufacturing factory jobs moving overseas to cheap labor markets in the Far East, and making there be no import taxes to prevent import dumping of cheap goods. Without import taxes on these goods to make them as expensive to buy as locally made products, the local factories would not be able to compete with the overseas sweatshops, and therefore have to close down and lay off workers. At one point in history a toy Cabbage Patch doll sold in the USA for the equivalent wages of the persons who manufactured the doll in Mexico, Japan or India or Malaysia, Thailand or Singapore or Hong Kong or Taiwan or China for what they would earn in two months of work so that the workers would be unable to afford to buy any such dolls for their families because the greedy money men who owned the factories and stores selling the dolls did not want to pay them hardly anything for their work efforts. The people in the USA who were earning good wages in the factories were all fired or laid off. The factories were closed. The money men could then move production elsewhere to hire cheap labor in the Far East or Mexico. Now all of these laid off USA workers were in as bad or worse a situation as the foreign Far East workers because all of the necessities of life like food, shelter, heat, medicine, and other goods and services in their local area were comparatively more expensive than those in the Far Eastern countries. These trade policies are just a way to make the average Joe Six Pack in America, Canada, and Europe lose their jobs to these other places where there is cheap labor, and pollution laws are not enforced by the governments there, and so this free trade laws and factory closing activity thereby lowers the standard of living of all such Americans, Canadians, and Europeans. But the rich owners of the stores and companies selling the products were able for a while to get more rich with the extra money that resulted in having to pay the foreign workers only a tiny amount of money while charging about the same price for the products sold back in America. With time, the demand for lower prices (from the lowered standard of living domestically) caused the rich owners to have to lower the prices to levels that could sustain sales and maintain a reasonable profit margin. The end result was usually a lowering of product quality / durability, an increase in product breakage, and a corresponding increase in garbage land fill site usage for the faster accumulating broken junk. In the last decade or so, it has come to be realized that transportation costs have risen as the price of oil changes. The fuel costs to move cheap products from far away may end up raising the price on the product to levels that again make locally produced products competitive against the foreign one--a catch-22 situation for the rich owners.
How did the dolls and stuffed toys industry deal with competition from computer and electronic games targeted to girls?
To counter the market decline attributed to competition from computer and electronic games targeted to girls, manufacturers brought out more interactive dolls and updated their current products.
What is the Occupational Classification for dolls and stuffed toys industry?
Sic 3942 dolls and stuffed toys
Are stuffed dogs considered dolls?
Yes
What is the NAICS code for the dolls and stuffed toys industry?
339931 (Doll and Stuffed Toy Manufacturing)
When whales are killed what are they used for?
they are stuffed with hay and made into dolls
What dolls and stuffed toys company is Mattel's largest competitor?
Mattel's closest competitor in the dolls and stuffed toys industry is Hasbro, Inc., many of whose products are geared towards boys.
What type of dolls did they have in 1860-1900?
Dolls with china heads and cloth sawdust stuffed bodies were popular around that time. Dolls with bisque heads hands and feet. Charlotte style dolls. And Schoenhut dolls were also well known at that time.
What does the dolls and stuffed toys industry consist of?
This category covers establishments primarily engaged in manufacturing dolls, doll parts, and doll clothing, except doll wigs. Establishments primarily engaged in manufacturing stuffed toys are also included in this industry.
What are Waldorf dolls made out of?
Waldorf dolls are also known as Steiner dolls, often handmade and designed to be very simple, even plain, cloth dolls to stimulate a child's creativity. Traditional Waldorf dolls are generally made of a flexible cotton fabric and stuffed with wool.
What are some prices of boy baby dolls on Amazon?
The prices on Amazon reflect the current market pricing for baby dolls which is dynamic. Therefore current pricing cannot be determined, however it can be assumed that Amazon will undersell local retailers (however, shipping prices may make up for the difference).
What are some good presents for a ten year old girl other then stuffed animals?
barby dolls
What toys were played with in the 1930s by 5 year old children?
tinker toys Chineese checkers dolls stuffed animals
