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Supply curve

Economy; Economics

A graph of the relationship between the price of a good and the amount supplied at different prices. (See also demand curve. )

Supply-side policies

Economy; Economics

Increasing economic growth by making markets work more efficiently. In the 1980s, Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher championed supply-side policies as they attacked Keynesian demand management. ...

Sustainable growth

Economy; Economics

A term much used by environmentalists, meaning economic growth that can continue in the long term without non-renewable resources being used up or pollution becoming intolerable. Mainstream ...

Systematic risk

Economy; Economics

The risk that remains after diversification, also known as market risk or undiversifiable risk. It is systematic risk that determines the return earned on a well-diversified portfolio of assets.

Systemic risk

Economy; Economics

The risk of damage being done to the health of the financial system as a whole. A constant concern of bank regulators is that the collapse of a single bank could bring down the entire financial ...

Tangible assets

Economy; Economics

Assets you can touch: buildings, machinery, gold, works of art, and so on. Contrast with intangible assets.

Often used to describe a tax on goods produced abroad imposed by the government of the country to which they are exported. Many countries have reduced such tariffs as part of the process of freeing ...