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  2. Service (economics) - Wikipedia

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    The service provider must deliver the service at the exact time of service consumption. The service is not manifested in a physical object that is independent of the provider. The service consumer is also inseparable from service delivery. Examples: The service consumer must sit in the hairdresser's chair, or in the airplane seat.

  3. Essay - Wikipedia

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    An economic essay can start with a thesis, or it can start with a theme. It can take a narrative course and a descriptive course. It can even become an argumentative essay if the author feels the need. After the introduction, the author has to do his/her best to expose the economic matter at hand, to analyze it, evaluate it, and draw a conclusion.

  4. Just price - Wikipedia

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    The Christian should "do unto others as you would have them do unto you", meaning he should trade value for value. Aquinas believed that it was specifically immoral to raise prices because a particular buyer had an urgent need for what was being sold and could be persuaded to pay a higher price because of local conditions:

  5. Supply and demand - Wikipedia

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    In his 1870 essay "On the Graphical Representation of Supply and Demand", Fleeming Jenkin in the course of "introduc[ing] the diagrammatic method into the English economic literature" published the first drawing of supply and demand curves in English, [22] including comparative statics from a shift of supply or demand and application to the ...

  6. Exchange value - Wikipedia

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    In political economy and especially Marxian economics, exchange value (German: Tauschwert) refers to one of the four major attributes of a commodity, i.e., an item or service produced for, and sold on the market, the other three attributes being use value, economic value, and price. [1] Thus, a commodity has the following:

  7. 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 ...

  8. Eight-legged essay - Wikipedia

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    The eight-legged essay format did not become prevalent as a standard essay in the civil service examination until early Ming dynasty, when the composition of the essay was clearly specified. [ 1 ] [ 4 ] In the seventeenth century, Gu Yanwu stated that this form of essay-writing became standardized precisely during the 15th century, when the ...

  9. Law of value - Wikipedia

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    Critics however argue that economic value is something purely subjective, i.e. a personal valuation determined by personal preferences and marginal utility; only prices are objective. [98] One of the first Marx-critics to argue this was the Austrian Eugen Böhm von Bawerk. [99]