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  2. Opportunity cost - Wikipedia

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    Opportunity cost, as such, is an economic concept in economic theory which is used to maximise value through better decision-making. In accounting, collecting, processing, and reporting information on activities and events that occur within an organization is referred to as the accounting cycle.

  3. Monetary economics - Wikipedia

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    Monetary economics. Monetary economics is the branch of economics that studies the different theories of money: it provides a framework for analyzing money and considers its functions (such as medium of exchange, store of value, and unit of account ), and it considers how money can gain acceptance purely because of its convenience as a public ...

  4. Friedrich von Wieser - Wikipedia

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    Wieser is remembered chiefly for the imputation theory, the alternative (or opportunity) cost theory and his monetary theory. The alternative cost theory (or opportunity cost theory) is a theory of enormous importance that comes from his Theorie der gesellschaftlichen Wirtschaft (Theory of Social Economy), published in 1914, although his ...

  5. Non-monetary economy - Wikipedia

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    Non-monetary economy. A moneyless economy or nonmonetary economy is a system for allocation of goods and services without payment of money. The simplest example is the family household. Other examples include barter economies, gift economies and primitive communism. Even in a monetary economy, there are a significant number of nonmonetary ...

  6. Value (economics) - Wikipedia

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    t. e. In economics, economic value is a measure of the benefit provided by a good or service to an economic agent, and value for money represents an assessment of whether financial or other resources are being used effectively in order to secure such benefit. Economic value is generally measured through units of currency, and the interpretation ...

  7. Modern monetary theory - Wikipedia

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    e. Modern monetary theory or modern money theory ( MMT) is a heterodox [1] macroeconomic theory that describes currency as a public monopoly and unemployment as evidence that a currency monopolist is overly restricting the supply of the financial assets needed to pay taxes and satisfy savings desires. [2] [3] According to MMT, governments do ...

  8. Friedman rule - Wikipedia

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    Friedman rule. The Friedman rule is a monetary policy rule proposed by Milton Friedman. [1] Friedman advocated monetary policy that would result in the nominal interest rate being at or very near zero. His rationale was that the opportunity cost of holding money faced by private agents should equal the social cost of creating additional fiat money.

  9. Comparative advantage - Wikipedia

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    Comparative advantage in an economic model is the advantage over others in producing a particular good. A good can be produced at a lower relative opportunity cost or autarky price, i.e. at a lower relative marginal cost prior to trade. [1] Comparative advantage describes the economic reality of the work gains from trade for individuals, firms ...