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• 20:47, 21 November 2017 (diff | hist) . . (+102)‎ . . N International economic system ‎ (Created page with "The system of the world economy based on flow across international borders. Category:Economics") (current)
• 20:47, 21 November 2017 (diff | hist) . . (+129)‎ . . N International economic order ‎ (Created page with "The placement and position of countries within the world economy based on capital, trade, and production. Category:Economics") (current)
• 20:47, 21 November 2017 (diff | hist) . . (+128)‎ . . N Internationalization of capital ‎ (Created page with "Capital is transcending international boundaries and is available for use in the global marketplace. Category:Economics") (current)
• 20:46, 21 November 2017 (diff | hist) . . (+136)‎ . . N Labor ‎ (Created page with "A factor of production that includes human physical exertion performed in the creation of a good or service. Category:Economics") (current)
• 20:46, 21 November 2017 (diff | hist) . . (+163)‎ . . N Land ‎ (Created page with "A factor of production that includes not only a geographic portion of the earth's surface, but also the raw materials from this region. Category:Economics") (current)
• 20:46, 21 November 2017 (diff | hist) . . (+166)‎ . . N Law of demand ‎ (Created page with "An empirical regularity of consumer behavior that presumes the quantity of a good demanded and the price of the good are inversely related. Category:Economics") (current)
• 20:45, 21 November 2017 (diff | hist) . . (+163)‎ . . N Law of supply ‎ (Created page with "An empirical regularity of producer behavior that presumes the quantity of a good produced and the price of that good are directly related. Category:Economics") (current)
• 20:45, 21 November 2017 (diff | hist) . . (+103)‎ . . N Location theory ‎ (Created page with "A compilation of ideas and methods dealing with questions of accessibility. Category:Economics") (current)
• 20:45, 21 November 2017 (diff | hist) . . (+125)‎ . . N Logical positivism ‎ (Created page with "The formation of hypotheses, data collection, and a search for theory through scientific method. Category:Economics") (current)
• 20:44, 21 November 2017 (diff | hist) . . (+214)‎ . . N Mixed economic system ‎ (Created page with "Economic systems that are a hybrid form of capitalists, command economy, or a traditional system, usually where both government and private decisions determine how resources a...") (current)
• 20:44, 21 November 2017 (diff | hist) . . (+113)‎ . . N Opportunity cost ‎ (Created page with "The cost of foregone alternatives given up in order to produce other activities or goods. Category:Economics") (current)
• 20:42, 21 November 2017 (diff | hist) . . (+133)‎ . . N Phenomenological approach ‎ (Created page with "The view that human life can be best understood through the world of individual experiences and meanings. Category:Economics") (current)
• 20:42, 21 November 2017 (diff | hist) . . (+180)‎ . . N Political economy ‎ (Created page with "The approach to studying society that views social relations as a unified whole organized along lines of class, gender, ethnicity, and other lines of power. Category:Econom...") (current)
• 20:41, 21 November 2017 (diff | hist) . . (+133)‎ . . N Product market ‎ (Created page with "The market where households buy and firms sell the products the products and services they have produced. Category:Economics") (current)
• 20:41, 21 November 2017 (diff | hist) . . (+87)‎ . . N Profit ‎ (Created page with "The difference between gross revenues and production costs. Category:Economics") (current)
• 20:40, 21 November 2017 (diff | hist) . . (+122)‎ . . Purchasing power parity ‎ (current)
• 20:40, 21 November 2017 (diff | hist) . . (+133)‎ . . N Raw materials ‎ (Created page with "A substance in the physical environment considered to have value of usefulness in the production process. Category:Economics") (current)
• 20:39, 21 November 2017 (diff | hist) . . (+87)‎ . . N Relative location ‎ (Created page with "Position of a place or feature with respect to other locations. Category:Economics") (current)
• 20:39, 21 November 2017 (diff | hist) . . (+104)‎ . . N Spatial integration ‎ (Created page with "Linkages between a city or firm and the members of its economic environment. Category:Economics") (current)
• 20:38, 21 November 2017 (diff | hist) . . (+271)‎ . . N Spatial organization ‎ (Created page with "A theme in geography emphasizing how space is organized by individuals and societies to suit their own designs. It provides a framework for analyzing and interpreting locatio...") (current)
• 20:38, 21 November 2017 (diff | hist) . . (+128)‎ . . N Spatial structure ‎ (Created page with "The location of elements of distribution with respect to each other, such as the hierarchy of cities. Category:Economics") (current)
• 20:37, 21 November 2017 (diff | hist) . . (+171)‎ . . Structuralism ‎ (current)
• 20:37, 21 November 2017 (diff | hist) . . (+236)‎ . . N Third World debt crisis ‎ (Created page with "The dangerous economic position of certain Third World nations that carry an enormous debt to overseas banks, private banks, and governments, the interest of which rob the deb...") (current)
• 20:36, 21 November 2017 (diff | hist) . . (+145)‎ . . N Traditional market ‎ (Created page with "An economic system in which culture, tradition, and folkways determine how scarce resources will be used by the economy. Category:Economics") (current)
• 20:36, 21 November 2017 (diff | hist) . . (+166)‎ . . N World economy ‎ (Created page with "A multistate economic system created in the late 15th and early 16th centuries by European capitalism and, later, by its overseas progeny. Category:Economics") (current)
• 20:35, 21 November 2017 (diff | hist) . . (+198)‎ . . N Animate sources of energy ‎ (Created page with "Human or animal power, the earliest form of energy for performing work; the switch from animate to inanimate sources of energy is a hallmark of the industrial revolution....") (current)
• 20:35, 21 November 2017 (diff | hist) . . (+162)‎ . . N Bubonic plague ‎ (Created page with "The massive epidemic that swept through Europe from 1347 to 1351, killing roughly 25 million people and forever changing the continent. Category:Economics") (current)
• 20:35, 21 November 2017 (diff | hist) . . (+158)‎ . . N Burghers ‎ (Created page with "The emerging merchant class of early capitalist Europe, who grew wealthy and powerful from the expanding markets and trade routes. Category:Economics") (current)
• 20:34, 21 November 2017 (diff | hist) . . (+241)‎ . . Capitalism ‎ (current)
• 20:34, 21 November 2017 (diff | hist) . . (+111)‎ . . N Commodities ‎ (Created page with "Goods and services that are produced for sale on a market (i.e., to make a profit). Category:Economics") (current)
• 20:33, 21 November 2017 (diff | hist) . . (+220)‎ . . N Feudalism ‎ (Created page with "The economic and social system in Europe and some other places (including Japan), that preceded capitalism. The system was organized primarily through the power of the state,...") (current)
• 20:33, 21 November 2017 (diff | hist) . . (+258)‎ . . N Guilds ‎ (Created page with "The medieval system of handicraft production. Guilds were organized around different types of goods (e.g., paper, leather, iron, etc.). Master artisans or craftsmen ran works...") (current)
• 20:33, 21 November 2017 (diff | hist) . . (+196)‎ . . N Inanimate sources of energy ‎ (Created page with "Running water, fossil fuels, biofuels, but not human or animal power; the switch from animate to inanimate sources of energy is a hallmark of the industrial revolution. [...") (current)
• 20:32, 21 November 2017 (diff | hist) . . (+124)‎ . . N Market ‎ (Created page with "Institutions composed of buyers and sellers of commodities and other consumer goods and services. Category:Economics") (current)
• 20:32, 21 November 2017 (diff | hist) . . (+154)‎ . . N Serfs ‎ (Created page with "The basis of the rural labor force under feudalism; serfs were not owned by a master but were bound to the land by law and custom. Category:Economics") (current)
• 20:31, 21 November 2017 (diff | hist) . . (+65)‎ . . N Technology ‎ (Created page with "A means of converting inputs to outputs. Category:Economics") (current)
• 20:31, 21 November 2017 (diff | hist) . . (+105)‎ . . N Uneven spatial development ‎ (Created page with "Varying levels of economic growth, wealth, and poverty in different locations. Category:Economics") (current)
• 20:30, 21 November 2017 (diff | hist) . . (+189)‎ . . N Achieved characteristics ‎ (Created page with "Sociodemographic characteristics, such as education, occupation, income, marital status, and labor force participation, over which we have some degree of control. Catego...") (current)
• 20:30, 21 November 2017 (diff | hist) . . (+162)‎ . . N Ascribed characteristics ‎ (Created page with "Characteristics of an individual over which the individual has little, if any, control; these include race, gender, and family history. Category:Economics") (current)
• 20:30, 21 November 2017 (diff | hist) . . (+113)‎ . . N Baby boom ‎ (Created page with "The dramatic rise in the U.S. birthrate following World War II, between 1946 and 1964. Category:Economics") (current)
• 20:29, 21 November 2017 (diff | hist) . . (+160)‎ . . N Baby bust ‎ (Created page with "The years immediately following the baby boom in which U.S. fertility rates fell dramatically, or any period of low population growth. Category:Economics") (current)
• 20:29, 21 November 2017 (diff | hist) . . (+113)‎ . . N Birthrate (crude) ‎ (Created page with "The number of live births per 1000 population per year (sometimes abbreviated as CBR). Category:Economics") (current)
• 20:28, 21 November 2017 (diff | hist) . . (+141)‎ . . N Capital ‎ (Created page with "A factor of production, including tools, buildings, and machines used by labor to fashion goods from raw material. Category:Economics") (current)
• 20:28, 21 November 2017 (diff | hist) . . (+107)‎ . . N Death rate (crude) ‎ (Created page with "The annual number of deaths per thousand population (sometimes abbreviated CDR). Category:Economics") (current)
• 20:27, 21 November 2017 (diff | hist) . . (+124)‎ . . Demographic transition ‎ (current)
• 20:26, 21 November 2017 (diff | hist) . . (+94)‎ . . N Doubling time ‎ (Created page with "The time in years required for a population of a country to double. Category:Economics") (current)
• 20:26, 21 November 2017 (diff | hist) . . (+135)‎ . . N Fertility Rate (total) ‎ (Created page with "The number of live births per woman during her child-bearing years, sometimes called "Total Fertility Rate". Category:Economics") (current)
• 20:26, 21 November 2017 (diff | hist) . . (+185)‎ . . N Geographic information systems (GIS) ‎ (Created page with "A technique for storing and transforming geographic data on a wide variety of variables to produce digital maps with hardware and associated computer software. Category:E...") (current)
• 20:25, 21 November 2017 (diff | hist) . . (+152)‎ . . N Human suffering index ‎ (Created page with "A useful descriptive measure of the differences in living conditions among countries, including measures of human well-being. Category:Economics") (current)
• 20:24, 21 November 2017 (diff | hist) . . (+99)‎ . . N Infant mortality rate ‎ (Created page with "The number of deaths during the first year of live per 1000 live births. Category:Economics") (current)

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