Golden Rule

Golden Rule

Golden Rule may refer to:

*Ethic of reciprocity, the Golden Rule in ethics, morality, history and religion
*Golden Rule savings rate, in economics, the savings rate which maximizes consumption in the Solow growth model
*Golden Rule (fiscal policy), in economics, a rule adopted in the UK by HM Treasury to provide guidelines for fiscal policy
*Golden rule (law), or the British Rule
*Golden Rule (ketch), a boat used in a nuclear-weapons protest
*Fermi's golden rule, a formula of quantum mechanics
*Golden Rule Store, the original name of JCPenney
*Golden Rule Airlines, a small aviation company located in Kyrgyzstan
*Golden Rule Insurance Company, a health insurance company based in Indianapolis, Indiana, U.S.A.
*Golden Rule Lumber Center, an American hardware store chain
*Samuel M. Jones, a.k.a. "Golden Rule" Jones, mayor of Toledo, Ohio, 1897
*an alternate name for the "Rule of Three", a particular form of Cross-multiplication in elementary mathematics

Alternatively, a golden rule may simply be a particularly important rule in a given context.


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