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  2. Glossary of economics - Wikipedia

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    A system of production, resource allocation, and distribution of goods and services within a society or a given geographic area. It includes the combination of the various institutions, agencies, entities, decision-making processes, and patterns of consumption that comprise the economic structure of a given community.

  3. 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 ...

  4. Rentier capitalism - Wikipedia

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    Rentier capitalism is a concept in Marxist and heterodox economics to refer to rent-seeking and exploitation by companies in capitalist systems. [1] [2] [3] The term was developed by Austrian social geographer Hans Bobek [4] describing an economic system that was widespread in antiquity and still widespread in the Middle East, where productive investments are largely lacking and the highest ...

  5. Economic system - Wikipedia

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    An economic system, or economic order, [1] is a system of production, resource allocation and distribution of goods and services within a society. It includes the combination of the various institutions , agencies, entities, decision-making processes, and patterns of consumption that comprise the economic structure of a given community.

  6. Supply chain - Wikipedia

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    v. t. e. Supply and demand stacked in a conceptual chain. A supply chain is a complex logistics system that consists of facilities that convert raw materials into finished products and distribute them [1] to end consumers [2] or end customers. [3] Meanwhile, supply chain management deals with the flow of goods in distribution channels within ...

  7. 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.

  8. Supply and demand - Wikipedia

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    Capitalism portal. Business portal. v. t. e. Supply chain as connected supply and demand curves. In microeconomics, supply and demand is an economic model of price determination in a market. It postulates that, holding all else equal, the unit price for a particular good or other traded item in a perfectly competitive market, will vary until it ...

  9. Economic efficiency - Wikipedia

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    Economic efficiency. In microeconomics, economic efficiency, depending on the context, is usually one of the following two related concepts: [1] Allocative or Pareto efficiency: any changes made to assist one person would harm another. Productive efficiency: no additional output of one good can be obtained without decreasing the output of ...