Information about Widget (economics)
A widget is a placeholder name for an object or, more specifically, a mechanical or other manufactured device.
Etymology
The word occurs in the 1924 comedic play, Beggar on Horseback (1924), written by George S. Kaufman and Marc Connelly. The hero, a struggling composer, must choose between creating music that stimulates his soul but earns no money or earning a soul-deadening living in a "widget" factory. "Widget" is never explained; but clearly it is any mechanical product without artistic or spiritual value. [1].Economics
"Widget" is frequently used in texts and speech, especially in the context of Economics, to indicate a hypothetical "any-product." Companies in such texts will frequently be given names such as "ABC Widgets" or "Acme Widget Corp." to indicate that the particular business of the hypothetical company is not relevant to the topic of discussion (e.g. [1]). In economics it has for decades been an abstract unit of production however it is more frequently being used as a description for a small web application or gadget.See also
- Gadget
- GUI Widget
- Metasyntactic variable
References
Beggar on Horseback is a play by George S. Kaufman and Marc Connelly.
A parody of the expressionistic parables that were popular at the time, it rails against the perils of trading one's artistic talents for commercial gain.
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A parody of the expressionistic parables that were popular at the time, it rails against the perils of trading one's artistic talents for commercial gain.
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George Kaufman (November 16 1889 - June 2 1961) was an American playwright, theatre director and producer, humorist, and drama critic.
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Life and career
Born to a Jewish family in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Kaufman added the middle initial to his name to lend it balance and..... Click the link for more information.
Marcus Cook Connelly (December 13, 1890 - December 21, 1980) was a member of the Algonquin Round Table.
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Career
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GADGET is a freely available code for cosmological N-body/SPH simulations written by Volker Springel at the Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics. This article describes version 2 of GADGET (known as GADGET-2).
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widget (or control) is an interface element that a computer user interacts with, such as a window or a text box. Widgets are sometimes qualified as virtual to distinguish them from their physical counterparts, e.g.
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