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Revision as of 17:44, 7 November 2009
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Index
See the related articles subpage to the article on economics [1] for an index to topics referred to in the economics articles.
Parent topics
- Economics [r]: The analysis of the production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services. [e]
- Politics [r]: The process by which human beings living in communities make decisions and establish obligatory values for their members. [e]
- Macroeconomics [r]: The study of the behaviour of the principal economic aggregates, treating the national economy as an open system. [e]
Related topics
- Public goods [r]: Products and services that can only be collectively financed because it is not feasible to require individual users to pay for using them. [e]
- Fiscal policy [r]: Policy concerning public expenditure, taxation and borrowing and the provision of public goods and services, and their effects upon social conduct, the distribution of wealth and the level of economic activity. [e]
- Taxation [r]: The transfer of resources from the community to the government. [e]
- National debt [r]: The external obligations of the government and public sector agencies (otherwise known as national debt or government debt). [e]
- Multiplier effect [r]: [e]
- Socialism [r]: Any socio-economic system in which property and distribution of wealth are controlled by a community, by cooperation law. [e]
- Libertarianism [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Communitarianism [r]: The view that the rights of the individuals to self-accomplishment should be balanced with duties and responsibilities toward society as well as by a stronger sense of the common good. [e]
Glossary
- Adverse selection [r]: a partial market failure that occurs when there are traders who take advantage of asymmetric information, raising uncertainty and leading to a reduction in the value of its products. [e]
- Asymmetric information [r]: a situation in which a seller has information that is not available to potential buyers - or vice-versa. [e]
- Crowding out [r]: A fall in private sector investment resulting from an increase in government borrowing. [e]
- Externality [r]: A cost of production that is not borne by the producer, or a benefit that the producer does not receive. [e]
- Flexible prices [r]: The property of a market in which prices act rapidly to bring supply into equality with demand (see supply and demand). [e]
- Gini coefficient [r]: A number between 0 and 1 denoting the degree of inequality of income in a community, defined as the area between the Lorenz curve and the diagonal divided by the area under the diagonal. [e]
- Gini index [r]: A Gini coefficient expressed as a percentage. [e]
- Impossibility theorem [r]: The proof that it is impossible to devise a rational democratic voting system that is guaranteed to produce a consistent set of preferences for a group from the preferences of the people in the group. [e]
- Kaldor-Hicks criterion [r]: The criterion for the assessment of the economic efficiency of a proposal that requires that those who gain from it should be able to compensate those who lose from it. [e]
- Lorenz curve [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Market power [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Perfect competition [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Samaritan's dilemma [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Subsidy [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Transfer payment [r]: Add brief definition or description