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  2. 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 ...

  3. Economics terminology that differs from common usage

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    Welfare economics is a branch of economics that uses microeconomic techniques to evaluate economic well-being, especially relative to competitive general equilibrium, with a focus on economic efficiency and income distribution. [13] In general usage, including by economists outside the above context, welfare refers to a form of transfer payment ...

  4. Coffee badging - Wikipedia

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    [2] [5] Coffee badging has been described as a challenge to organic office participation. [6] Coffee badging has been criticized for incentivizing participation over productivity and contributing to empty office space. [7] [8] Coffee badging is a form of impression management in response to employee surveillance. [9]

  5. Definitions of economics - Wikipedia

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    James Stuart (1767) authored the first book in English with 'political economy' in its title, explaining it just as: . Economy in general [is] the art of providing for all the wants of a family, so the science of political economy seeks to secure a certain fund of subsistence for all the inhabitants, to obviate every circumstance which may render it precarious; to provide everything necessary ...

  6. List of polysubstance combinations - Wikipedia

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    The substances are taken in the order of LSD, Mushrooms, MDMA, then ketamine. Each substance should be taken at the peak of the previous substance to maximize the synergistic effects. Ketamine can be re-dosed as needed to extend the trip. The result is a highly visual and euphoric experience with periods of deep dissociation. LSD: Mescaline ...

  7. Tripping - Wikipedia

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    Tripping may refer to: Psychedelic experience; Tripping (ice hockey), a penalty infraction; Tripping (pipe), the act of running or pulling drill pipe into or out of a wellbore on a drilling rig "Tripping" (song), a 2005 single by Robbie Williams; tripping.com, a metasearch engine for vacation homes

  8. Common-pool resource - Wikipedia

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    In economics, a common-pool resource (CPR) is a type of good consisting of a natural or human-made resource system (e.g. an irrigation system or fishing grounds), whose size or characteristics makes it costly, but not impossible, to exclude potential beneficiaries from obtaining benefits from its use.

  9. Glossary of stock market terms - Wikipedia

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    Widow-and-orphan stock: a stock that reliably provides a regular dividend while also yielding a slow but steady rise in market value over the long term. [13] Witching hour: the last hour of stock trading between 3 pm (when the bond market closes) and 4 pm EST (when the stock market closes), which can be characterized by higher-than-average ...