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Also more accurately referred to as aggregate expenditure, this is one of the key concepts introduced by John Maynard Keynes that still today is at the heart of most macroeconomic theories about the ...

Domain: Economy; Category: Economics Collected Term

Paul Samuelson, one of the 20th century’s greatest economists, once remarked that the principle of comparative advantage was the only big idea that economics had produced that was both true and ...

Domain: Economy; Category: Economics Collected Term

These can arise when somebody (the principal) hires somebody else (the agent) to carry out a task and the interests of the agent conflict with the interests of the principal. An example of such ...

Domain: Economy; Category: Economics Collected Term

This is the simplest yardstick of economic performance. If one person, firm or country can produce more of something with the same amount of effort and resources, they have an absolute advantage over ...

Domain: Economy; Category: Economics Collected Term

Broadly speaking, a period of slow or negative economic growth, usually accompanied by rising unemployment. Economists have two more precise definitions of a recession. The first, which can be hard ...

Domain: Economy; Category: Economics Collected Term

Represents how the quantity of a product changes, as income for an individual or group changes. Formula: Ied = % change in qty demanded / % change in income. Income elasticity is positive for normal ...

Domain: Economy; Category: Economics

An opportunity cost that does not involve a monetary payment. Ex: opportunity cost of the entrepreneur's time / opportunity cost of the entrepreneur's funds that could have been invested elsewhere.

Domain: Economy; Category: Economics

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