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Austrian economies

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Automatic stabilisers

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Automation

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Availability Heuristic

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Backward vertical integration

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Bail-out

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Balance of payments

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Bank lending

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Bank of England

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Bank Run

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Banking

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Barriers to Entry

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Barter

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Base Year

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Beggar my Neighbour

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Benefits in kind

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Big Mac Index

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Bilateral trade agreement

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Black market

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Bond

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Brain Drain

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Brand

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Bretton Woods system

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Bric economies

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Budget deficit

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Budget Line

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Buffer stocks

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Business confidence

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Business finance

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Business growth

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Business objectives

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Capital Account

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Capital controls

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Capital deepening

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Capital Flight

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Capital goods

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Capital labour substitution

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Capital output ratio

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Capital stock

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Capitalism

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Carbon credits

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Carbon Price Floor

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Carbon trading

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Caribbean Community and Common Market

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Carry trade

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Cartel

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Cartels

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Ceteris Paribus

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Challenger Banks

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Circular Flow of Income

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Cities

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Classical economics

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Club Goods

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Co-operation

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Co-operative

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Coase Theorem

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Collective bargaining

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Collusion

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Command economy

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Common Agricultural Policy (CAP)

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Common Market

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Common Pool Resources

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Community surplus

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Comparative advantage

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Competition

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Competition and Markets Authority (CMA)

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Competitive tendering

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Competitiveness

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Complexity

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Composite demand

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Concentration ratio

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Conditional cash transfer

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Confirmation Bias

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Conflicting Objectives

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Congestion charging

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Conglomerate

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Conglomerates

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Conspicuous consumption

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Constraints

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Consumer confidence

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Consumer durables

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Consumer exploitation

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Consumer goods

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Consumer price index (CPI)

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Consumer sovereignty

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Consumer Spending

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Consumer surplus

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Consumption

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Contagion

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Containerisation

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Contestable Markets

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Convergence

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​Corporate social responsibility

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Corporation tax

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Corruption

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Cost-push inflation

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Costs

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CPIH Inflation

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Creative Destruction

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Credible threats

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Credit creation

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Credit crunch

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Credit union

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Creditor nations

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Creeping Inflation

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Creeping Protectionism

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Cross-price elasticity of demand

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Cross-subsidy

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Crowding in

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Crowding out

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Currency Board

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Currency crisis

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Currency market

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Currency union

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Currency war

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Current Account (BoP)

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Customs Union

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Cyclical fiscal deficit

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Cyclical unemployment

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De-Mergers

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De-monetisation

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​De-monetisation

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Deadweight loss

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Debt relief

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Deficit

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Deflation

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Demand

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Demand for labour

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Demand Management

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Demerger

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Demerit goods

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Demography

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Depreciation

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Depression

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Deprivation

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Developing countries

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Development banks

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Development goals

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Development Traps

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11

Digital Economy

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Diminishing marginal utility

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Diminishing Returns

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Direct Taxes

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15

Diseconomies of Scale

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Disinflation

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Disposable income

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Diversification

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Division of labour

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Dominant Firm

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Doughnut Economics

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Dumping

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Duopoly

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Dutch Disease

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40

Dynamic efficiency

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Dynamic Pricing

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East African Community (EAC)

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Easterlin paradox

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Economic cycle

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Economic development

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Economic Efficiency

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Economic freedom index

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121

Economic Growth

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6

Economic History

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Economic models

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Economic nationalism

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Economic Problem

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Economic regulation

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Economic stability

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Economic Thought

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22

Economic welfare

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Economically active

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Economically inactive

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4

Economics of leisure

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8

Economics of sport

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63

Economies of scale

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2

Economies of scope

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5

Education

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Effective demand

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Effective marginal tax rate

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Efficiency wage

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22

Elasticity

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14

Elasticity of supply

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7

Emerging economies

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Emerging markets

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8

Employment

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Employment rate

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17

Energy economics

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Entrepreneurship

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13

Environmental economics

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5

Equality

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1

Equities

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49

Euro area

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12

European Central Bank (ECB)

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European Economic Area (EEA)

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European Free Trade Area (EFTA)

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40

European single market

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European Union

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European Union enlargement

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Excess demand

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Excess supply

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Exchange Rate

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Excise duties

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9

Executive pay

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2

Expectations

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Expected Utility Theory

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Export multiplier

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11

Exports

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13

External balance

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19

External Cost

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3

External debt

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2

External diseconomies of scale

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11

External economies of scale

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10

External growth

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4

External imbalances

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7

External Shocks

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41

Externalities

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31

Extreme poverty

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Spare capacity

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1

Economic forecast

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Factor Mobility

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8

Fair trade

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Fertility rate

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Financial Account

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9

Financial Conduct Authority

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48

Financial economics

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1

Financial Inclusion

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5

Financial policy committee

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1

Fine-Tuning

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1

Finite resources

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Firms

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First-mover advantage

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Fiscal austerity

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21

Fiscal deficit

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Fiscal drag

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16

Fiscal Multiplier

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53

Fiscal Policy

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12

Fiscal stimulus

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Fisher Equation

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12

Fixed cost

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19

Fixed exchange rate

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2

Flat rate tax system

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5

Flexible working

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32

Floating exchange rate

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52

Foreign direct investment

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13

Foreign exchange

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1

Foreign savings

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4

Forward guidance

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10

Forward vertical integration

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Fragile states

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4

Framing

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1

Franchise

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1

Free Goods

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17

Free Market Economy

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5

Free Rider Problem

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32

Free trade

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11

Free Trade Area (FTA)

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0

Freemium

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10

Frictional unemployment

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0

FTSE 100 Index

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15

Functions of money

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65

Economic Inequality

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11

Immobility of labour

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4

Import substitution

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34

Import tariff

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Imports

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2

Inactivity

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Incentive function

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9

Inclusive Growth

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4

Income effect

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13

Income elasticity of demand

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2

Index numbers

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9

Indifference Curves

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18

Indirect Tax

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3

Industrialisation

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18

Inequality-adjusted Human Development Index (HDI)

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1

Infant industry

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11

Inferior good

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44

Inflation

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11

Inflation expectations

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0

Influencers

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1

Informal labour market

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Information Avoidance

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56

Information Failure

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30

Infrastructure

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58

Innovation

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Institutions

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4

Insurance

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Intellectual Property (IP)

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Intention-Action Gap

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1

Inter-related markets

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1

Interdependence

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37

Interest rates

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4

Internal devaluation

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11

Internal growth

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14

International economics

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31

International Monetary Fund (IMF)

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11

Intra-Industry Trade

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15

Intra-Regional Trade

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0

Invention

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Inventories

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28

Investment

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2

Invisible Hand

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15

Inward migration

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4

Inward Oriented Development

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2

Irrational behaviour

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4

Irrational Exuberance

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20

Equilibrium

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44

Incentives

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1

M-Pesa

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Machine learning

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Macro-prudential regulation

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13

Macroeconomic performance

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17

Macroeconomics

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2

Malnutrition

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25

Managed floating currency

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3

Management

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Managerial objectives

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49

Manufacturing

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Marginal analysis

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0

Marginal benefit

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12

Marginal cost

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12

Marginal profit

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1

Marginal propensity to consume

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1

Marginal propensity to save

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2

Marginal rate of tax

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12

Marginal revenue

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3

Marginal utility

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1

Market capitalisation

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6

Market Concentration

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3

Market Demand

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0

Market design

Key terms and concepts

0

Market disequilibrium

Micro (Year 1) Key Terms, Key terms and concepts

87

Market Failure

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0

Market forces

Micro (Year 1) Key Terms, Key terms and concepts

24

Market Power

Key terms and concepts

1

Market rigging

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0

Market share

Key terms and concepts

17

Market structure

Key terms and concepts

19

Market supply

Key terms and concepts

7

Marshall-Lerner Condition

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Marxist economics

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10

Maximum price

Key terms and concepts

0

Mean values

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0

MECOSUR

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0

Median earnings

Labour Markets Key Terms, Key terms and concepts, Micro (Year 2) Key Terms

2

Median values

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1

Mercantilism

Key terms and concepts

33

Merger

Key terms and concepts

18

Merit Goods

Key terms and concepts

0

Metcalfe’s Law

Key terms and concepts

0

Micro businesses

Key terms and concepts

8

Micro credit

Key terms and concepts

4

Microeconomics

Key terms and concepts

11

Middle-income trap

Key terms and concepts

0

Migrant

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20

Minimum efficient scale

Key terms and concepts, Micro (Year 2) Key Terms

8

Minimum price

Key terms and concepts

20

Minimum Wage

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3

MINT economies

Key terms and concepts

2

Misery Index

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1

Missing market

Key terms and concepts

2

Mixed economy

Key terms and concepts

1

Monetarism

Key terms and concepts

23

Monetary Policy Committee

Key terms and concepts

2

Monetary stimulus

Key terms and concepts

8

Monetary union

Key terms and concepts

27

Money

Financial Markets Key Terms, Key terms and concepts

0

Money illusion

Key terms and concepts

12

Monopolistic competition

Key terms and concepts

58

Monopoly

Key terms and concepts

25

Monopsony

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0

Monty Hall Problem

Behavioural Economics Key Terms, Key terms and concepts

1

Moore's Law

Key terms and concepts

1

Mortgage

Key terms and concepts

11

Multi-dimensional Poverty

Key terms and concepts

3

Multinational

Key terms and concepts

22

Multiplier Effect

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H

2

Happiness

Key terms and concepts

6

Harrod-Domar Model

Key terms and concepts

18

Health Economics

Key terms and concepts

8

Health rationing

Key terms and concepts

3

Healthcare economics

Key terms and concepts

2

Heavily indebted poor countries (HIPC) initiative

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0

Heckscher-Ohlin theory

Key terms and concepts

1

Hedging

Key terms and concepts

3

Herfindhal index

Key terms and concepts

1

High frequency trading

Key terms and concepts

12

Higher education

Key terms and concepts

1

Hit-and-run competition

Key terms and concepts

0

Horizontal equity

Key terms and concepts

35

Horizontal integration

Key terms and concepts, Micro (Year 2) Key Terms

3

Hot Money

Key terms and concepts

5

House prices

Key terms and concepts

5

Household Debt

Key terms and concepts

3

Household Income

Key terms and concepts

8

Household wealth

Key terms and concepts

27

Housing market

Key terms and concepts

29

Human capital

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59

Human development

Key terms and concepts

68

Human Development Index (HDI)

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10

Humanitarian aid

Key terms and concepts

3

Hurdle Model of Price Discrimination

Key terms and concepts

3

Hybrid Currency Systems

Key terms and concepts

3

Hyper-inflation

Key terms and concepts

1

Hyperbolic discounting

Micro (Year 1) Key Terms, Behavioural Economics Key Terms, Key terms and concepts

2

Hyperinflation

Key terms and concepts

9

Hysteresis

Key terms and concepts

N

7

NAFTA

Key terms and concepts

1

NAIRU

Key terms and concepts

14

Nash Equilibrium

Key terms and concepts

20

National debt

Macro (Year 1) Key Terms, Macro (Year 2) Key Terms, Financial Markets Key Terms, Key terms and concepts

3

National savings

Key terms and concepts

0

National wealth

Macro (Year 2) Key Terms, Key terms and concepts

7

Nationalisation

Key terms and concepts

17

Natural capital

Macro (Year 1) Key Terms, Macro (Year 2) Key Terms, Key terms and concepts

31

Natural monopoly

Key terms and concepts

2

Natural rate of unemployment

Key terms and concepts

20

Natural resource curse

Key terms and concepts

0

Needs and Wants

Micro (Year 1) Key Terms, Key terms and concepts

0

Negative equity

Key terms and concepts

57

Negative externalities

Key terms and concepts

20

Negative externality

Key terms and concepts

12

Negative interest rate

Key terms and concepts

2

Neo-classical economics

Key terms and concepts

2

Neoclassical economics

Key terms and concepts

0

Net financial wealth per head

Macro (Year 1) Key Terms, Macro (Year 2) Key Terms, Key terms and concepts

6

Network effects

Key terms and concepts

1

Networks

Key terms and concepts

0

NGO

Key terms and concepts

7

Nobel Prize

Key terms and concepts

9

Nominal GDP

Macro (Year 1) Key Terms, Key terms and concepts

28

Non-price competition

Key terms and concepts

0

Non-Rival

Key terms and concepts

19

Non-tariff barriers

Macro (Year 2) Key Terms, Key terms and concepts

4

Normal goods

Key terms and concepts

15

Normal profit

Key terms and concepts

4

Normative statements

Key terms and concepts

0

Northern Ireland economy

Key terms and concepts

0

Norway Model

Macro (Year 2) Key Terms, Key terms and concepts

0

Not-for-profit organisation

Key terms and concepts

P

9

Palma Ratio

Macro (Year 2) Key Terms, Key terms and concepts

7

Paradox of thrift

Key terms and concepts

2

Paradox of value

Key terms and concepts

8

Pareto efficiency

Key terms and concepts

0

Pareto improvement

Key terms and concepts

0

Part Time Employment

Macro (Year 1) Key Terms, Key terms and concepts

0

Partial market failure

Micro (Year 1) Key Terms, Key terms and concepts

2

Participation Rate

Macro (Year 1) Key Terms, Macro (Year 2) Key Terms, Labour Markets Key Terms, Key terms and concepts

0

Passporting

Macro (Year 2) Key Terms, Financial Markets Key Terms, Key terms and concepts

4

Patents

Micro (Year 1) Key Terms, Key terms and concepts

3

Pension Funds

Key terms and concepts

25

Perfect competition

Key terms and concepts

18

Phillips Curve

Macro (Year 1) Key Terms, Macro (Year 2) Key Terms, Key terms and concepts

0

Pigouvian Tax

Micro (Year 1) Key Terms, Key terms and concepts

1

Planned economy

Key terms and concepts

21

Pollution

Key terms and concepts

0

Portfolio Investment

Key terms and concepts

0

Positional goods

Key terms and concepts

17

Positive externalities

Key terms and concepts

3

Positive statement

Key terms and concepts

4

Potential output

Key terms and concepts

22

Poverty

Key terms and concepts

83

Poverty and inequality

Key terms and concepts

2

PPP Exchange Rate

Key terms and concepts

6

Prebisch-Singer Hypothesis

Key terms and concepts

0

Precariat

Labour Markets Key Terms, Key terms and concepts

2

Precautionary saving

Key terms and concepts

3

Predatory pricing

Key terms and concepts

15

Preferences

Key terms and concepts

0

Premature Deindustrialization

Macro (Year 2) Key Terms, Key terms and concepts

5

Price capping

Key terms and concepts

0

Price ceiling

Key terms and concepts

40

Price Discrimination

Key terms and concepts

33

Price elasticity of demand

Key terms and concepts

10

Price elasticity of supply

Key terms and concepts

12

Price fixing

Key terms and concepts

17

Price gouging

Key terms and concepts

1

Price leadership

Key terms and concepts

31

Price mechanism

Key terms and concepts

10

Price regulation

Key terms and concepts

2

Price stability

Key terms and concepts

14

Price Volatility

Key terms and concepts

2

Price war

Key terms and concepts

1

Price wars

Key terms and concepts

14

Pricing Strategies

Key terms and concepts

2

Primary Income

Key terms and concepts

23

Primary product dependency

Key terms and concepts

20

Primary sector

Key terms and concepts

8

Priming

Key terms and concepts

0

Principal

Key terms and concepts

9

Principal Agent Problem

Financial Markets Key Terms, Key terms and concepts

7

Prisoners’ dilemma

Key terms and concepts

0

Private equity

Key terms and concepts, Micro (Year 2) Key Terms

6

Private Finance Initiative

Key terms and concepts

3

Private goods

Key terms and concepts

0

Private sector

Key terms and concepts

13

Privatisation

Key terms and concepts

9

Producer surplus

Key terms and concepts

5

Product differentiation

Micro (Year 1) Key Terms, Key terms and concepts

1

Production Function

Key terms and concepts

16

Production possibility frontier (PPF)

Key terms and concepts

27

Productive efficiency

Key terms and concepts

0

Productivity gap

Macro (Year 1) Key Terms, Key terms and concepts

32

Profit

Key terms and concepts

36

Profit maximisation

Key terms and concepts, Micro (Year 2) Key Terms

0

Profit Motive

Micro (Year 1) Key Terms, Key terms and concepts

6

Profitability

Key terms and concepts

8

Progressive tax

Key terms and concepts

1

Propensity to import

Key terms and concepts

1

Propensity to save

Key terms and concepts

0

Property Income

Macro (Year 1) Key Terms, Key terms and concepts

5

Property rights

Key terms and concepts

3

Proportional tax

Key terms and concepts

1

Prospect Theory

Behavioural Economics Key Terms, Key terms and concepts

26

Protectionism

Key terms and concepts

6

Public bad

Key terms and concepts

18

Public good

Key terms and concepts

10

Public sector

Key terms and concepts, Micro (Year 2) Key Terms

5

Purchasing Power Parity (PPP)

Key terms and concepts

R

0

Randomized controlled trial

Key terms and concepts

22

Rational Choice

Key terms and concepts

2

Rational expectations

Key terms and concepts

3

Rationing

Key terms and concepts

12

Real disposable income

Key terms and concepts

5

Real exchange rate

Key terms and concepts

15

Real GDP

Key terms and concepts

0

Real terms

Macro (Year 1) Key Terms, Key terms and concepts

1

Real wage inflexibility

Key terms and concepts

28

Real wages

Macro (Year 1) Key Terms, Labour Markets Key Terms, Key terms and concepts

0

Rebalancing

Key terms and concepts

15

Recession

Macro (Year 1) Key Terms, Key terms and concepts

1

Recovery

Key terms and concepts

0

Redistribution

Key terms and concepts

28

Regional economics

Key terms and concepts

15

Regional Trade Blocs

Key terms and concepts

7

Regressive tax

Key terms and concepts

1

Regret Theory

Key terms and concepts

32

Regulation

Key terms and concepts

4

Regulatory capture

Key terms and concepts

34

Relative poverty

Macro (Year 1) Key Terms, Micro (Year 1) Key Terms, Key terms and concepts

1

Relative prices

Key terms and concepts

20

Remittances

Macro (Year 2) Key Terms, Key terms and concepts

0

Renewable energy

Micro (Year 1) Key Terms, Key terms and concepts, Current Issues

19

Renewable resources

Key terms and concepts

5

Rent-seeking

Key terms and concepts

13

Research and development

Key terms and concepts

0

Reservation price

Micro (Year 1) Key Terms, Key terms and concepts

0

Reservation wage

Labour Markets Key Terms, Key terms and concepts

5

Reserve currency

Key terms and concepts

2

Retail Price Index

Key terms and concepts

18

Retailing

Key terms and concepts

1

Retrenchment

Key terms and concepts

1

Revealed preference

Key terms and concepts

22

Revenue maximization

Key terms and concepts, Micro (Year 2) Key Terms

5

Revenues

Key terms and concepts

0

Ring-Fencing

Financial Markets Key Terms, Key terms and concepts

4

Risk

Key terms and concepts

1

Risk averse

Key terms and concepts

1

Road pricing

Key terms and concepts

1

Rotterdam Effect

Key terms and concepts

7

Rural urban migration

Key terms and concepts

S

3

Sales Maximisation

Key terms and concepts, Micro (Year 2) Key Terms

18

Satisficing

Key terms and concepts

6

Saving ratio

Key terms and concepts

4

Savings

Key terms and concepts

1

Savings Gap

Key terms and concepts

1

Say’s Law

Key terms and concepts

15

Scarcity

Key terms and concepts

4

Scarcity bias

Key terms and concepts

1

Schengen Agreement

Key terms and concepts

4

Scottish economy

Key terms and concepts

1

Screening

Key terms and concepts

0

Seasonal adjustment

Macro (Year 1) Key Terms, Key terms and concepts

7

Seasonal demand

Key terms and concepts

7

Seasonal unemployment

Key terms and concepts

0

Secondary Income

Macro (Year 1) Key Terms, Macro (Year 2) Key Terms, Key terms and concepts

10

Secular Stagnation

Key terms and concepts

2

Service Industries

Macro (Year 1) Key Terms, Key terms and concepts

2

Shareholder value

Key terms and concepts

1

Sharing Economy

Key terms and concepts

0

Short-termism

Key terms and concepts

13

Shut down price

Key terms and concepts

4

Signalling

Key terms and concepts

0

Signalling function

Micro (Year 1) Key Terms, Key terms and concepts

0

Skill premium

Macro (Year 2) Key Terms, Labour Markets Key Terms, Key terms and concepts

8

Skills

Key terms and concepts

1

Small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs)

Key terms and concepts, Micro (Year 2) Key Terms

10

Small businesses

Key terms and concepts

9

Social behaviour

Key terms and concepts

7

Social benefit

Micro (Year 1) Key Terms, Key terms and concepts

9

Social Capital

Key terms and concepts

5

Social cost

Key terms and concepts

0

Social efficiency

Micro (Year 1) Key Terms, Key terms and concepts

2

Social Enterprises

Key terms and concepts

2

Social insurance

Key terms and concepts

1

Social Progress Indicator

Key terms and concepts

0

Social science

Micro (Year 1) Key Terms, Key terms and concepts

18

Social welfare

Key terms and concepts

0

Socialism

Key terms and concepts

1

Solow Model

Key terms and concepts

15

Sovereign debt

Key terms and concepts

6

Sovereign wealth fund

Key terms and concepts

1

Special drawing rights

Key terms and concepts

4

Special Economic Zones

Macro (Year 2) Key Terms, Key terms and concepts

8

Specialisation

Key terms and concepts

3

Stagflation

Key terms and concepts

6

Stakeholders

Key terms and concepts

2

Stamp Duty

Key terms and concepts

32

Standard of Living

Key terms and concepts

5

State Aid

Key terms and concepts

0

State provision

Micro (Year 1) Key Terms, Key terms and concepts

7

Static efficiency

Key terms and concepts

5

Status Quo Bias

Key terms and concepts

0

Sterling Index

Macro (Year 1) Key Terms, Macro (Year 2) Key Terms, Financial Markets Key Terms, Key terms and concepts

1

Stock Market

Key terms and concepts

1

Stress testing

Key terms and concepts

0

Structrural transformation

Macro (Year 2) Key Terms, Key terms and concepts

11

Structural budget deficit

Macro (Year 1) Key Terms, Macro (Year 2) Key Terms, Key terms and concepts

13

Structural trade deficit

Key terms and concepts

40

Structural unemployment

Key terms and concepts

15

Sub-normal profit

Key terms and concepts

0

Submarkets

Micro (Year 1) Key Terms, Key terms and concepts

17

Subsidy

Key terms and concepts

2

Subsistence farming

Key terms and concepts

6

Substitutes

Key terms and concepts

6

Substitution effect

Key terms and concepts

13

Sunk cost

Key terms and concepts

38

Supernormal profit

Key terms and concepts

24

Supply

Key terms and concepts

10

Supply shock

Key terms and concepts

28

Supply-side economics

Key terms and concepts

10

Surge Pricing

Key terms and concepts

97

Sustainable development

Macro (Year 1) Key Terms, Key terms and concepts

0

Synoptic Economics

Key terms and concepts

T

10

Tacit collusion

Key terms and concepts, Micro (Year 2) Key Terms

17

Takeover

Key terms and concepts

10

Tax Avoidance

Macro (Year 1) Key Terms, Key terms and concepts, Current Issues

1

Tax Incidence

Key terms and concepts

12

Taxation

Key terms and concepts

3

Technical efficiency

Key terms and concepts

0

Technological progress

Macro (Year 1) Key Terms, Macro (Year 2) Key Terms, Key terms and concepts

22

Technology

Key terms and concepts

17

Terms of Trade

Key terms and concepts

0

Time lags (production)

Key terms and concepts

0

Titling

Macro (Year 2) Key Terms, Financial Markets Key Terms, Key terms and concepts

9

Tourism

Key terms and concepts

10

Trade Balance

Macro (Year 1) Key Terms, Key terms and concepts

19

Trade Barriers

Key terms and concepts

15

Trade Creation

Key terms and concepts

29

Trade deficit

Key terms and concepts

0

Trade diversion

Macro (Year 2) Key Terms, Key terms and concepts

19

Trade liberalisation

Macro (Year 2) Key Terms, Key terms and concepts

0

Trade openness

Macro (Year 1) Key Terms, Macro (Year 2) Key Terms, Key terms and concepts

9

Trade surplus

Key terms and concepts

11

Trade Union

Labour Markets Key Terms, Key terms and concepts, Micro (Year 2) Key Terms

0

Trade-Offs

Macro (Year 1) Key Terms, Macro (Year 2) Key Terms, Key terms and concepts

0

Trading blocs

Key terms and concepts

16

Tragedy of the Commons

Key terms and concepts

10

Trans-Atlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP)

Key terms and concepts

4

Trans-Pacific Partnership

Key terms and concepts

0

Transfer pricing

Key terms and concepts

3

Transition economies

Key terms and concepts

1

Transmission mechanism

Key terms and concepts

48

Transport economics

Key terms and concepts

14

Trend growth

Key terms and concepts

3

Trust

Key terms and concepts

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