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Economics

Dividend

Economy; Economics

A payment of income by a company to its shareholders.

Poll tax

Economy; Economics

A lump-sum tax levied on every citizen at the same rate regardless of income.

Monitoring

Economy; Economics

The process of checking whether individuals or firms are actually behaving as they should.

Insider trading

Economy; Economics

Stock exchange transactions by people through whose positions in or contacts with companies are able to obtain price-sensitive information.

Equilibrium

Economy; Economics

A situation in which nobody has any immediate reason to change their actions

Gresham's Law

Economy; Economics

Bad drive out good money. One of the oldest law in economics, named after Sir Thomas Gresham, Advisor to Queen Elizabeth I from the United Kingdom. He observed that when the currency was debased and ...

merkantilismo

Economy; Economics

The conventional economic wisdom of the 17th century that made a partial come-back in recent years. Mercantilists feared that money would become too scarce to sustain high levels of output and ...

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