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Index
See the related articles subpage to the article on economics [1] for an index to topics referred to in the economics articles.
Parent topics
- Economics [r]: The analysis of the production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services. [e]
- Politics [r]: The process by which human beings living in communities make decisions and establish obligatory values for their members. [e]
- Macroeconomics [r]: The study of the behaviour of the principal economic aggregates, treating the national economy as an open system. [e]
Related topics
- Public goods [r]: Products and services that can only be collectively financed because it is not feasible to require individual users to pay for using them. [e]
- Fiscal policy [r]: Policy concerning public expenditure, taxation and borrowing and the provision of public goods and services, and their effects upon social conduct, the distribution of wealth and the level of economic activity. [e]
- Taxation [r]: The transfer of resources from the community to the government. [e]
- National debt [r]: The external obligations of the government and public sector agencies (otherwise known as national debt or government debt). [e]
- Multiplier effect [r]: [e]
Glossary
- Adverse selection [r]: a partial market failure that occurs when there are traders who take advantage of asymmetric information, raising uncertainty and leading to a reduction in the value of its products. [e]
- Asymmetric information [r]: a situation in which a seller has information that is not available to potential buyers - or vice-versa. [e]
- Crowding out [r]: A fall in private sector investment resulting from an increase in government borrowing. [e]
- Externality [r]: A cost of production that is not borne by the producer, or a benefit that the producer does not receive. [e]
- Gini coefficient [r]: A number between 0 and 1 denoting the degree of inequality of income in a community, defined as the area between the Lorenz curve and the diagonal divided by the area under the diagonal. [e]
- Lorenz curve [r]: A curve formed by plotting, on a cumulative basis, the amount of income received by members of a community against the number of individuals that receive that amount - so that inequality of income is indicated by departure from the 45 degree diagonal (sometimes applied to wealth). [e]
- Multiplier effect [r]: [e]
- Samaritan's dilemma [r]: The adverse motivational effect of the expectation of assistance such as the motive to relax precautions against insured risks. [e]
- Subsidy [r]: A government grant to a supplier of goods or services, usually for the purpose of reducing prices, raising the supplier's income, or increasing the supplier's employment. [e]
- Transfer payment [r]: Money transferred from one party to another, without the exchange of a good or a service. [e]