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  2. Service (economics) - Wikipedia

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    Service (economics) A restaurant waiter is an example of a service-related occupation. A service is an act or use for which a consumer, firm, or government is willing to pay. [1] Examples include work done by barbers, doctors, lawyers, mechanics, banks, insurance companies, and so on. Public services are those that society (nation state, fiscal ...

  3. Economics - Wikipedia

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    Economics ( / ˌɛkəˈnɒmɪks, ˌiːkə -/) [1] [2] is a social science that studies the production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services. [3] [4] Economics focuses on the behaviour and interactions of economic agents and how economies work.

  4. Service economy - Wikipedia

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    Economic systems. Service economy can refer to one or both of two recent economic developments: The increased importance of the service sector in industrialized economies. The current list of Fortune 500 companies contains more service companies and fewer manufacturers than in previous decades. The relative importance of service in a product ...

  5. Goods and services - Wikipedia

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    Economics. Goods are items that are usually (but not always) tangible, such as pens or apples. Services are activities provided by other people, such as teachers or barbers. Taken together, it is the production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services which underpins all economic activity and trade.

  6. Tertiary sector of the economy - Wikipedia

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    The tertiary sector of the economy, generally known as the service sector, is the third of the three economic sectors in the three-sector model (also known as the economic cycle). The others are the primary sector ( raw materials) and the secondary sector ( manufacturing ). The tertiary sector consists of the provision of services instead of ...

  7. Economic system - Wikipedia

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    An economic system, or economic order, is a system of production, resource allocation and distribution of goods and services within a society. It includes the combination of the various institutions , agencies, entities, decision-making processes, and patterns of consumption that comprise the economic structure of a given community.

  8. Service (business) - Wikipedia

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    Service (business) Business services are a recognisable subset of economic services, and share their characteristics. The essential difference is that businesses are concerned about the building of service systems in order to deliver value to their customers and to act in the roles of service provider and service consumer. [1]

  9. Economy - Wikipedia

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    v. t. e. An economy [a] is an area of the production, distribution and trade, as well as consumption of goods and services. In general, it is defined as a social domain that emphasize the practices, discourses, and material expressions associated with the production, use, and management of resources. [3] A given economy is a set of processes ...