A buggy whip is a coach whip used for driving on horses harnessed to a buggy, or small open carriage. The buggy whip industry ceased to exist with the introduction of the automobile, and is cited in economics and marketing as a classic example of an industry ceasing to exist because its market niche, and the need for its product, disappears. A Coach whip is a cracking type of whip, used by the driver (or jockey) of a horse-powered type of vehicle, called coach; if it is a light model, known as buggy, the term buggy whip corresponds. ... Buggy can refer to various types of carts: a dune buggy or swamp buggy; a shopping cart (Southern American English); a form of baby transport also called a pushchair (British English) or stroller (American English); or a lightweight carriage, as in horse and buggy. ... A small variety of cars, the most popular kind of automobile. ... U.S. Economic Calendar Economics at the Open Directory Project Economics textbooks on Wikibooks The Economists Economics A-Z Institutions and organizations Bureau of Labor Statistics - from the American Labor Department Center for Economic and Policy Research (USA) National Bureau of Economic Research (USA) - Economics material from the organization... Marketing is the process of planning and executing the pricing, promotion, and distribution of goods, ideas, and services to create exchanges that satisfy individual and organizational goals. ... A niche market is a focused, targetable portion of a market. ...

Buggy whips are not entirely gone. A resurgence of interest in carriage driving among aging baby-boomers now too old to ride their horses has allowed a few die-hard buggy whip manufacturers to stay in business. Foremost among these is a company in Westfield, Massachusetts. A baby boomer is someone born in a period of increased birth rates, such as those during the economic prosperity that in many countries followed World War II. In the United States, demographers have put the generations birth years at 1946 to 1964, despite the fact that the U... Nickname: The Whip City Founded Incorporated May 19, 1669   County Hampden County Mayor Richard K. Sullivan Jr. ...

See also

• Frederic Bastiat's satirical Candle-makers' petition against the Sun.

A buggy whip is a braided whip with a large, hand sized handle at one end but that plus the stiff part attached is as taller as a man with a thinner, more flexible end that is 2/3 the length of the handle. It is mostly used lightly as an instruction and not to hurt. Frédéric Bastiat Claude Frédéric Bastiat (June 30, 1801–December 24, 1850) was a French classical liberal author and political economist. ... The Candlemakers petition is a well known satire of protectionism written and published by Frederic Bastiat in 1845, in which candlemakers and industrialists from other corporations petition the legislative body to make a law to protect their trade from the unfair competition of a foreign power: the Sun. ...

External links

The Chronicle of the Horse