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| | Economics - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Economics (from the Greek οίκος [oikos], 'family, household, estate', and νομος [nomos], 'custom, law', hence "household management" and "management of the state") is a social science that typically studies the production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services. | | | Microeconomics, which examines the economic behaviour of individual actors such as businesses, households, and individuals, with a view to understand decision making in the face of scarcity and the consequences of these decisions. | | | Various schools of heterodox economics, for instance socialist economics, green economics and associative economics, seek to explain economic phenomena using different basic assumptions, for example by emphasising that economics is primarily concerned with exchanges of values. |
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| | Department of Economics at State University of New York - New Paltz |
| | Economic theory is often fruitfully applied to the analysis of public and private policy issues on international trade, the environment, taxation and economic behavior, distribution of wealth and poverty, discrimination, law, labor relations, health and safety, agriculture, insurance, finance, and business. | | | The goals of economics are to better understand the world in which we live, and to contribute to the development of private and public sector policies which could more adequately address the well-being of the society. | | | Economics majors enjoy rewarding careers in government, business, finance, banking, foreign service, consulting, education, and research. |
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| | Computer Economics: Research on IT spending, budgeting, staffing, and security benchmark, metrics, and ratios for the financial management of information technology |
| | Computer Economics: Research on IT spending, budgeting, staffing, and security benchmark, metrics, and ratios for the financial management of information technology | | | According to statistics collected in our annual IT spending survey, the economic performance of mainframes is not as good as that of other hardware platforms, especially in data centers where mainframe computers are used in a mix with other classes of servers. | | | Computer Economics is now offering for sale this comprehensive source of data center benchmark statistics, by one of the leading experts in data center management. |
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| | Institutional Economics :: Home Page |
| | And there is a strong economic argument for not using budget surpluses to fund these liabilities, put by economist Nicholas Barr from the London School of Economics, an international authority on pension funds. | | | One corollary of this is that the official measure of the current account deficit probably overstates the true ‘economic’ deficit, since the valuation gains are part of the overall return on foreign assets, but are not measured in the current account which includes only income flows… | | | Economic transparency falls short because it does not publish quarterly data on capacity utilization and only provides rough short term forecasts for inflation (quarterly) and output (semiannually) without numerical details about the medium term. |
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| | Economics : University of Vermont |
| | An economics major is well prepared for a broad range of career and post-graduate options. | | | The Department places particular emphasis on applying all of these tools to the evaluation of alternative policy solutions to current economic problems in such areas as controversies in the regulation of monopolies, gender and racial discrimination in labor and capital markets, and environmental protection. | | | The teaching mission of the Economics Department at the University of Vermont is to equip students to understand the modern economy and to critically evaluate the economic arguments they encounter, both in terms of their conceptual soundness and their ability to explain the factual record. |
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| | Department of Economics |
| | And increasing interdependence among countries makes it all the more important that policy-makers around the world have the economic models they need to formulate sound economic policies--the costs of policy mistakes can ripple around the world, as can benefits that derive from good policy. | | | Across the developing world, countries have scaled back directed credit programs and dismantled economic regimes that repressed financial markets. | | | I took an economics course my first semester in college and from that point there was no question about what my major would be. |
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http://www.utexas.edu/cola/economics
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| | Internet Public Library: Economics |
| | The House Committee on Financial Services is responsible for addressing legislation covering banks, banking, economic stabilization, insurance, international finance, money, credit, private and public housing, securities and exchanges, and urban development. | | | This site is a collection of information on economic issues of networks, such as the telephone and fax communications networks, the Internet, financial exchange and credit card networks, as well as on "virtual networks," such as the virtual network of all Windows or all Mac computers. | | | The site operates as an archive for most of his published work on information economics as well as for works in progress, and presents links to other prominent academics in the field. |
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| | Internet Links for Economics, the Environment, and Sustainability |
| | Economic and Environmental Principles and Guidelines for Water and Related Land Resources Implementation Studies: This is a PDF file, and you will need Adobe Acrobat to read it. | | | Greening Earth Society: A group that stands in opposition to the mainstream view that human-induced global climate change is real and may be catastrophic. | | | Economic Education Website: The purpose of the Economic Education Website is to provide support for economic education in all forms and at all levels. |
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| | National Council on Economic Education (NCEE) |
| | Over 100,000 students have used the Advanced Placement Economics workbooks to prepare for the AP Economics exams. | | | The National Summit on Economic and Financial Literacy was held on March 3, 2005 in Washington, DC. | | | The proof is in NCEE's fourth biennial state-by-state survey of economics and personal finance education in the nation's schools. |
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| | UNCW Student Affairs: Career Services |
| | As a result, economics is widely recognized as a solid background for many jobs and professions in business, government, and the law. | | | It draws upon history, philosophy, and mathematics to deal with subjects ranging from how an individual household or business can make sound decisions, to societal issues such as unemployment, inflation, and environmental decay. | | | Links to Internet Resources in Business and Economics (University of Kansas) http://www.bschool.ukans.edu/intbuslib |
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| | Yield (economics) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | The yield of a debt instrument is generally linked to default probability of the issuer. | | | In bond markets, US Treasury bond yields are the benchmark debt instruments because they are backed by the US Government and the risk of default is almost nil. | | | The relationship between yields and the maturity of instruments of similar credit worthiness, is described by the yield curve. |
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| | Book Review, December 1993 |
| | ..The economics of human capital have brought about a particularly dramatic change in the incentives for women to invest in college education in recent decades. | | | Of course, if the depositors' fears are justified and the bank is economically insolvent, other banks would be unlikely to throw good money after bad by recycling their fund to the insolvent bank. | | | By including a wide array of topics, Henderson wants to show "how general and inclusive economics is," and he hopes the encyclopedia will appeal to economics mavens and novices alike. |
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| | Economics - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Economics, which focuses on measurable variables, is broadly divided into two main branches: microeconomics, which deals with individual agents, such as households and businesses, and macroeconomics, which considers the economy as a whole, in which case it considers aggregate supply and demand for money, capital and commodities. | | | Economics is said to be normative when it recommends one choice over another, or when a subjective value judgment is made. | | | Evolutionary economics is a novel theory espoused by Nelson and Winter (1982) along these lines that seeks to understand the role of 'routines' in driving the evolution of firm behavior. |
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| | University of Chicago: Department of Economics |
| | Recent Research: Resources and environment; urban economics and regional economics; agriculture and development; monetary economics; tax and tax policy; finance. | | | Recent Research: The economics of sports; education and labor markets. | | | Recent Research: Long term factors in American economic growth with special emphasis on the use of intergenerational data sets to establish the relationship between the past and current behavior of households; economics of mortality in North America; long-term changes in nutrition, labor welfare, and labor productivity; economics and biodemography of aging; economic growth in China. |
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| | Deflation (economics): Just the facts... |
| | In economics (The branch of social science that deals with the production and distribution and consumption of goods and services and their management), deflation is a decrease in the general price level, or a rise in the purchasing power of money with respect to a large class of goods or services. | | | Deflation is generally regarded negatively, as it is a tax on borrowers and on holders of illiquid assets, which accrues to the benefit of holders of liquid assets and currency. | | | Deflation should not be confused with disinflation (A reduction of prices intended to improve the balance of payments) which is a slowing in the rate of inflation, that is, the general level of prices are increasing at a decreasing rate. |
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| | Inflation - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | General inflation is caused by a fall in the market value or purchasing power of money within an economy, as compared to currency devaluation which is the fall of the market value of a currency between economies. | | | Since inflation is often the result of government policies to increase the money supply, the government contribution to an inflationary environment is a tax on holding currency. | | | Inflation, from this perspective, is seen as the market expression of what the time value of money is. That is, if a dollar today is worth more to someone than a dollar a year from now, then there should be a discount in the economy as a whole for dollars in the future. |
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| | Foundation for Teaching Economics: Committed to Excellence in Economic Education |
| | The mission of the FTE is to introduce young individuals, selected for their leadership potential, to an economic way of thinking about national and international issues, and to promote excellence in economic education by helping teachers of economics become more effective educators. | | | In 2005, students averaged a 22 percent increase in scores between pre and post economic tests, conveying a significant advance in understanding economics. | | | The Foundation for Teaching Economics and HSBC North America have launched an Institute on the Environment and the Economy, through which FTE will conduct… |
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| | Saving (economics) - definition of Saving (economics) in Encyclopedia |
| | Saving refers to an activity occurring over time, a flow variable, whereas savings refers to something that exists at any one time, a stock variable. | | | This means that saving may increase without increasing investment, possibly causing a short-fall of demand (a pile-up of inventories, a cut-back of production, employment, and income, and thus a recession) rather than to economic growth. | | | Other kinds of saving can occur, as with corporate retained earnings (profits minus dividend and tax payments) and a government budget surplus. |
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| | Equity (economics) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Horizontal equity is the idea that people with a similar ability to pay taxes should pay the same or similar amounts. | | | Vertical equity is the idea that people with a greater ability to pay taxes should pay more. | | | Equity in economics is related to the idea of fairness, particularly in terms of taxation and welfare economics. |
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| | Technorati Tag: economics |
| | Articles on Economics Find business research and articles from some of the leading business periodicals at AllBusiness.com. | | | Beazley Reply to the Budget 2006 1 Comment Published May 12th, 2006 in Politics, Economics After watching Costello deliver the 2006 inflationary... | | | This page shows blog posts, photos, and links that have been tagged economics. |
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| | Productivity (economics) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Unlike labor productivity, the calculation of both capital productivity and total factor productivity is dependent on a number of doubtful assumptions and is subject to the Cambridge critique. | | | Even measures of land and labor productivity should be used only when conscious of the role of the heterogeneity of these inputs to the production process. | | | All else constant, it benefits a business to improve productivity, which over time lowers cost and (hopefully) improves ability to compete and make profit. |
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| | Neoclassical economics - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Neoclassical economics refers to a general approach (a "metatheory") to economics based on supply and demand which depends on individuals (or any economic agent) operating rationally, each seeking to maximize their individual utility or profit by making choices based on available information. | | | Neoclassical economics is the grouping of a number of schools of thought in economics. | | | Neoclassical economics is frequently criticised for having a normative bias. |
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| | Creditary economics - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Creditary economics is a broad and inclusive term for all theories of economics and political economy that drastically de-emphasize or deny altogether a role for debt and assumptions of fixed yield for such financial capital instruments. | | | Defenders of debt relations often argue that such measures as bankruptcy, debt relief, debt forgiveness, bailouts and deflation of major currencies serve to relieve the problems associated with most debt relations - and that these can continue to be managed on a case-by-case basis. | | | In neoclassical economics, nation-states are presumed to control and administer natural capital and human capital, and to grant credit according to a money supply system that reflects anticipated yield of these in financial capital under globalization. |
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| | Open Directory - Science: Social Sciences: Economics |
| | Dismal Scientist, The - Economy.com - Provides economic analysis, financial outlook, and global data. | | | Economics Departments, Institutes and Research Centers in the World (EDIRC) - Listing maintained by Christian Zimmermann of the University of Connecticut | | | It finances and provides advice for private sector ventures and projects in developing countries in partnership with private investors and, through its advisory work, helps governments create conditions that stimulate the flow of both domestic and foreign private savings and investment. |
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| | Economics: Debunking Economics Overview |
| | Issues which should form part of an education in economics, but which are omitted from standard courses | | | Debunking Economics is available in Australian bookstores now for $A39.95 RRP. | | | Debunking Economics is listed as one of the UK's Political Studies Association's top seven "recent books which seem to make a significant contribution to the development of political science in general, or are likely to be of wide interest in the field". |
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| | Consumption - encyclopedia article about Consumption. Free access, no registration needed. What does Consumption mean? What is Consumption? Provided by the Free Online Encyclopedia. |
| | economics, "consumption" is short-hand for personal consumption expenditure In Keynesian economics consumption refers to personal consumption expenditure, i.e., the purchase of currently produced goods and services out of income, out of savings (net worth), or from borrowed funds. | | | Consumption can also be defined as "the selection, adoption, use, disposal and recycling of goods and services", as opposed tho their design, production and marketing. | | | Consumption is the using up of a resource Resources comprise the base material for an activity or industry: |
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| | Creditary economics - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Creditary economics is a broad and inclusive term for all theories of economics and political economy that drastically de-emphasize or deny altogether a role for debt and assumptions of fixed yield for such financial capital instruments. | | | In neoclassical economics, nation-states are presumed to control and administer natural capital and human capital, and to grant credit according to a money supply system that reflects anticipated yield of these in financial capital under globalization. | | | Creditary economics challenges these assumptions, especially that global market values reflect local value of life or global value of Earth. |
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| | AIDS Economics Home Page |
| | World Bank AIDS Economics is part of the International AIDS Economics Network (IAEN). | | | This special focus area of the AIDS Economics web site gathers materials that address the complicated issues surrounding the economics of ARV treatment in developing countries. | | | For comments or questions regarding this site, please contact the AIDS Economics webmaster. |
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