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Economics
Complete Economics Dictionary
Term | Definition |
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Abnormal Profit | |
Absolute Advantage | |
Absolute Poverty | |
Adult Literacy Rate | |
Aggregate Demand | |
Aggregate Supply | |
Ancillary Firms | |
Appreciation (in the value of a currency) | |
Artificial Barriers to Entry | |
Average Cost | |
Average Revenue | |
Average Tax Rate | |
Balance of Payments | |
Balance of Payments on Current Account | |
Balance of Trade | |
Barter | |
Basic Wage | |
Bear | |
Birth Rate | |
Bond | |
Brand Loyalty | |
Break-even Level of Output | |
Broker | |
Budget | |
Budget Deficit | |
Budget Surplus | |
Bull | |
Capital Employed | |
Capital Intensive | |
Cartel | |
Central Bank | |
Ceteris Paribus | |
Closed Shop | |
Collateral | |
Collective Bargaining | |
Commercial Bank | |
Commercial Loan | |
Common Stock | |
Comparative Advantage | |
Compensating Differentials | |
Competition Policy | |
Complements | |
Constant Returns to Scale | |
Consumer Cooperative | |
Consumer Durables | |
Consumer Expenditure | |
Consumer Price Index (CPI) | |
Consumers | |
Consumption | |
Contestable Market | |
Contractionary Fiscal Policy | |
Corporation Tax | |
Cost-Push Inflation | |
Crowding Out | |
Cyclical Unemployment | |
Death Rate | |
Decreasing Returns to Scale | |
Default | |
Deflation | |
Demand-Pull Inflation | |
Demand Side Policy | |
Demand | |
Dependency Ratio | |
Dependent Population | |
Depreciation | |
Deregulation | |
Derived Demand | |
Developed Economy | |
Developing Economy | |
Direct Inward Investment | |
Direct Tax | |
Dis-economies of Scale | |
Disinflation | |
Dissaving | |
Diversification | |
Dividend | |
Division of Labour | |
Double Coincidence of Wants | |
Dumping | |
Economic Boom | |
Economic Cycle | |
Economic Goods | |
Economic Growth | |
Economic Recession | |
Economic Recovery | |
Economic System | |
Economic Use of Resources | |
Economically Active Population | |
Economies of Scale | |
Effective Demand | |
Embargo | |
Emigration | |
Enterprise | |
Entrepreneur | |
Equilibrium Wage Rate | |
Excess Demand | |
Excess Supply | |
Exchange Rate | |
Exchange | |
Exclusive Dealing | |
Excise Duty | |
Expansionary Fiscal Policy | |
Experience Goods | |
Export | |
External Benefit | |
External Cost | |
External Economies of Scale | |
External Growth | |
Factor Substitution | |
Factors of Production | |
Favourable Trade Balance | |
Full Line Forcing | |
Financial Assets | |
Financial Intermediary | |
Firms | |
Fixed Capital | |
Fixed Cost | |
Floating Exchange Rate | |
Foreign Exchange Market | |
Frictional Unemployment | |
Fringe Benefits | |
Full-time Employment | |
Gains from Trade | |
Gender Imbalance | |
Gender Pay Gap | |
General Union | |
Gross Domestic Product (GDP) | |
Gross Domestic Product per Capita | |
Gross Earnings | |
Gross Value Added (GVA) | |
Horizontal Integration | |
Human Development Index | |
Hyperinflation | |
Hypothecated Tax | |
Immigration | |
Imperfect Compettion | |
Imported Inflation | |
Import | |
Increasing Returns to Scale | |
Index Base Year | |
Indexation | |
Indirect Tax | |
Industrial Action | |
Industry | |
Inferior Goods | |
Inflation | |
Insolvent | |
Interest Rate | |
Internal Economies of Scale | |
Internal Growth | |
International Trade | |
Investment | |
Invisible Export | |
Invisible Import | |
Involuntary Unemployment | |
Joint-Stock Company | |
Labour Diseconomies | |
Labour Force | |
Labour Intensive | |
Labour Market | |
Labour Mobility | |
Labour Productivity | |
Labour | |
Land | |
Lateral Integration | |
Lean Manufacturing | |
Less-developed Economy | |
Limited Liability | |
Liquid Assets | |
Macroeconomies | |
Managed Floating | |
Management Diseconomies | |
Manufacturing | |
Marginal Tax Rate | |
Market Capitalisation | |
Market Demand | |
Market Disequilibrium | |
Market Economic System | |
Market Failure | |
Market Price | |
Market Share | |
Market Structure | |
Market Supply | |
Market | |
Mass Production | |
Medium of Exchange | |
Merger | |
Merit Goods | |
Microeconomies | |
Minimum Wage Legislation | |
Mixed Economic System | |
Monetary Policy | |
Money Market | |
Money Supply | |
Mortgage | |
Multinational | |
Multiplier Effect | |
National Debt | |
Nationalisation | |
Nationalised Industry | |
Natural Barriers to Entry | |
Natural Monopoly | |
Natural Rate of Population Growth | |
Needs | |
Negative Externality | |
Net Advantages (of an occupation) | |
Net Earnings | |
Net Migration | |
Newly Industrialised Economy | |
Nominal Gap | |
Non-price Competition | |
Non-tariff Trade Barriers | |
Non-wage Factors | |
Normal Goods | |
Occupational Immobility | |
Oligopoly | |
Open Economy | |
Opportunity Cost | |
Ordinary Shares | |
Overtime | |
Overdaft | |
Overpopulation | |
Overseas Aid | |
Overtime Ban | |
Participation Rate | |
Partnership | |
Part-time Employment | |
Penetration Pricing | |
Perfect Competition | |
Permanent Capital | |
Personal Debt | |
Personal Income Tax | |
Persuasive Advertising | |
Physical Assets | |
Piece Rate | |
Planned Economic System | |
Policy Instrument | |
Population Pyramid | |
Positive Externality | |
Predatory Pricing | |
Preferred Stock | |
Price Collision | |
Price Competition | |
Price Elastic | |
Price Elasticity of Demand | |
Price Elasticity of Supply | |
Price Inelastic | |
Price Mechanism | |
Price War | |
Primary Sector | |
Private Benefit | |
Private Cost | |
Private Expenditure | |
Private Limited Company | |
Privatisation | |
Producers | |
Production Possibility Curve (PPC) | |
Production | |
Products | |
Profit | |
Profit Maximisation | |
Progressive Tax | |
Proportional Tax | |
Protectionism | |
Public Corporation | |
Public Expenditure | |
Public Goods | |
Public Limited Company | |
Public Sector Borrowing Requirement | |
Pure Monopoly |