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Introduction Definitions and Basics Unemployment, from the Concise Encyclopedia of Economics Each month, the federal government's Bureau of Labor Statistics randomly sur...
Introduction Definitions and Basics Government Debt and Deficits, from the Concise Encyclopedia of Economics Government debt is the stock of outstanding IOUs issued ...
Introduction The words "exchange" and "trade" refer to the same activity--people who have one thing and want a different thing can exchange or trade it voluntarily with each...
Definitions and Basics Most economic arguments for government intervention are based on the idea that the marketplace cannot provide public goods or handle externalities. Publ...
Bordo, Michael, Claudia Goldin and Eugene White, (eds.), The Defining Moment: The Great Depression and the American Economy in the 20th Century Chandler, Alfred, Strategy an...