Economics and Economic Theory

• accumulation
• affluence
• aggregate
• aggregate demand
• aggregate equilibrium
• agribusiness
• agriculture
• antitrust
• assumed debt
• austerity
• autarky
• automation
• balanced budget
• balance of payments
• balance of trade
• bankruptcy
• belt-tightening
• bonanza
• boom
• boondoggle
• bottom out
• bottom out
• bourgeoisie
• boycott
• bread line
• break even
• broke
• budget
• budget deficit
• business cycle
• bust
• buyer’s market
• buying power
• cap
• capital
• capital-intensive
• capitalism
• cartel
• chattel
• cheap
• circular flow diagram
• class
• class struggle
• clean up
• collectivism
• command economy
• commercialism
• common market
• Common Market
• communism
• company town
• compensation
• competition
• conspicuous consumption
• consumer goods
• consumerism
• consumer price index
• containerization
• convergence theory
• cost-benefit analysis
• cost of living
• creeping inflation
• cut corners
• dear
• decline
• deficit
• deficit financing
• deficit spending
• deflation
• demand
• demand curve
• demand elasticity
• demand-side economics
• democratic
• socialism
• depression
• deregulation
• destitution
• devaluation
• developed nation
• developing nation
• diminishing returns
• disadvantaged
• discomfort index
• discretionary income
• disposable income
• distribution
• diversify
• down-and-out
• downside
• dumping
• duopoly
• earning power
• easy money policy
• econometrics
• economic model
• economics
• economic system
• economist
• economy
• elasticity
• embargo
• entitlement
• European Economic Community
• expansion
• expensive
• extravagance
• false economy
• farm economy
• feudalism
• fiefdom
• five-year plan
• food stamps
• forecast
• foreign aid
• Fourth World
• free enterprise system
• freehold
• free trade area
• freeze
• full employment
• gainful employment
• galloping inflation
• GNP
• goods
• goods and services
• Gresham’s law
• gross national product
• guaranteed annual income
• hand-to-mouth
• hard up
• have-nots
• haves
• heir
• hunting and gathering society
• hyperinflation
• index
• index of leading indicators
• indigence
• industrialization
• inelasticity
• inflation
• inflationary spiral
• inheritance
• input-output model
• insolvency
• Keynesian economics
• labor-intensive
• Laffer curve
• Laissez faire
• landed class
• latifundium
• law of diminishing returns
• loose money policy
• Lorenz curve
• lottery
• lower class
• lumpenproletariat
• macroeconomics
• make ends meet
• Malthusian
• mammon
• manufacturing
• market
• market economy
• market equilibrium
• market mechanism
• market share
• market socialism
• Marxism
• mass production
• material assets
• materialism
• measure of value
• mechanization
• mercantilism
• microeconomics
• middle class
• mixed economy
• monetarism
• money
• money supply
• monopoly
• national debt
• nationalization
• natural resources
• needy
• negative income tax
• nest egg
• oligopoly
• open market
• ophelimity
• out-of-pocket
• ownership
• panic
• paper profit
• pauperism
• pay
• peak
• penury
• per capita income
• petite bourgeoisie
• Phillips curve
• physiocrats
• planned economy
• plutocracy
• political economy
• poor
• possession
• poverty
• poverty level
• poverty line
• PPI
• price controls
• price index
• price supports
• prime cost
• private enterprise
• private property
• private sector
• privileged class
• producer price index
• production
• productivity
• profit
• proletariat
• propertied class
• property
• property rights
• proprietary rights
• proprietorship
• prosperity
• public sector
• public utility
• purchasing power
• purse strings
• quotation
• rationing
• raw goods
• Reganomics
• real dollars
• real property
• real wages
• recession
• recovery
• reflation
• regulation
• remuneration
• renewable resources
• reparation
• restitution
• restrictive practices
• revaluation
• revenue
• ruin
• sanctions
• scarcity
• seasonal fluctuations
• sector
• secular trend
• service
• service economy
• stakeout
• shortage
• shortfall
• slavery
• sliding scale
• slump
• smokestack industry
• socialism
• social security
• socioeconomic
• splurge
• squander
• stagflation
• standardization of parts
• standard of living
• stipend
• storming
• subsidy
• subsistence
• level
• subvention
• supply
• supply and demand
• supply curve
• supply elasticity
• supply-side economics
• surplus
• surplus value
• technological monopoly
• tenancy
• tight money policy
• title
• trade barriers
• trade deficit
• trade imbalance
• transfer payment
• trickle-down theory
• trough
• trust
• underdeveloped nation
• underprivileged
• unemployment rate
• upper class
• urban economy
• value
• wage-price controls
• waste
• ways and means
• wealth
• welfare
• welfare capitalism
• welfare state
• wholesale price index
• work ethic
• working class
• working poor
• worth
• worthless