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  2. The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics - Wikipedia

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    The New Palgrave: A Dictionary of Economics (1987) is the title of the first New Palgrave edition. It is a four-volume reference edited by John Eatwell, Murray Milgate, and Peter Newman. It has 4,000 pages of entries, including 1,300 subject entries (with 4,000 cross-references), and 655 biographies. There were 927 contributors, including 13 ...

  3. Glossary of economics - Wikipedia

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    Also called resource cost advantage. The ability of a party (whether an individual, firm, or country) to produce a greater quantity of a good, product, or service than competitors using the same amount of resources. absorption The total demand for all final marketed goods and services by all economic agents resident in an economy, regardless of the origin of the goods and services themselves ...

  4. The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money

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    OCLC. 62532514. The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money is a book by English economist John Maynard Keynes published in February 1936. It caused a profound shift in economic thought, [1] giving macroeconomics a central place in economic theory and contributing much of its terminology [2] – the "Keynesian Revolution".

  5. Economics - Wikipedia

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    t. e. 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.

  6. Definitions of economics - Wikipedia

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    Political Economy or Economics is a study of mankind in the ordinary business of life; it examines that part of individual and social action which is most closely connected with the attainment and with the use of the material requisites of well-being. Thus it is on the one side a study of wealth; and on the other, and more important side, a ...

  7. Peter Kenneth Newman - Wikipedia

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    Economist. Peter Kenneth Newman (5 October 1928, Mitcham, Surrey, England – 6 November 2001, Hamilton, New Zealand) was an English economist and historian of economic thought. He helped to edit The New Palgrave: A Dictionary of Economics, to which he contributed several articles. [1][2]

  8. Economics terminology that differs from common usage

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    The economics term cost, also known as economic cost or opportunity cost, refers to the potential gain that is lost by foregoing one opportunity in order to take advantage of another. The lost potential gain is the cost of the opportunity that is accepted. Sometimes this cost is explicit: for example, if a firm pays $100 for a machine, its cost ...

  9. List of Dewey Decimal classes - Wikipedia

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    Class 000 – Computer science, information, and general works. Class 100 – Philosophy and psychology. Class 200 – Religion. Class 300 – Social sciences. Class 400 – Language. Class 500 – Science. Class 600 – Technology. Class 700 – Arts and recreation. Class 800 – Literature.

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