Economics : The Definitive Encyclopedia from Theory to Practice [4 Volumes].

Cover -- Volume 1 -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction to Volume 1: Foundations of Economics -- A -- Accountant -- Accountants Skills and Job Tasks -- Generally Accepted Accounting Principles -- Professional Certifications and Types of Accountants -- Agriculture and the Environment -- American Economic Association -- American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations -- Ancient Thought, or Oeconomicus -- Animal Spirits -- Asset Allocation -- How to Create an Asset Allocation -- Rebalancing -- Tactical Asset Allocation -- Association of Environmental and Resource Economists -- Austrian Economic Thought -- B -- Banking -- History -- Payment Services -- Savings -- Borrowing -- Supplementary Financial Services -- Quasi-Banking Entities -- Banking Trends -- Banking, History of -- Banking in Europe -- The Founding of the Bank of England -- Modern Banking in the New World -- Merchant Banks -- U.S. Banking in the Modern Era -- Bankruptcy -- History of Bankruptcy -- Bankruptcy Process -- Bankruptcy Chapters -- Bankruptcy Considerations -- Basic Economic Questions -- Bastiat, Frédéric -- Behavioral Economics -- Behavioral Finance -- Bernoulli, Jacob -- Biodiversity -- Böhm-Bawerk, Eugen von -- Boulding, Kenneth -- Budget -- The Consumer Budget -- Pre-Budget: Track Expenses -- Creating the Budget or Spending Plan -- Common Budget Guidelines -- Monitoring the Budget -- Buffett, Warren -- C -- Cantillon, Richard -- Capital Gains and Losses -- History -- Present -- Capital Markets -- Capital Resources -- Capitalism -- Advantages of Capitalism -- Disadvantages of Capitalism -- Carlyle, Thomas -- Carnegie, Andrew -- Central Bank -- Central Planning -- Socialism -- Communism -- Fascism -- Positives and Negatives of Central Planning -- Charitable Donations -- Chicago School of Economic Thought.

Circular Flow of Economic Activity -- The Rules: Command (Central Planning) or Market? -- Circular-Flow Phase 1 -- Circular-Flow Phase 2 Adds Financial Institutions (Federal Reserve System, Banks, Credit Unions, etc.) -- Circular-Flow Phase 3 Adds Government (National, State, and Local) -- Circular-Flow Phase 4 Adds Foreign Countries (Exports and Imports [X &amp -- M]) -- Summary -- Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission -- Case Summary -- Civil War Economics, Shortages, and Inflation, 1861-1865 -- Classical Economics -- Colonialism -- Command Economy -- Advantages -- Disadvantages -- History and Examples -- Communism -- Compound Interest -- Importance of Compound Interest -- Borrowing and Compound Interest -- Cost-Benefit Analysis -- Craft Guilds -- Creative Destruction -- Credit Report -- What Is on a Credit Report? -- Types of Debt -- Purpose of a Credit Report -- Credit Score -- Reporting Agencies -- Disputing Information on Credit Report -- Crony Capitalism -- Cultural Economics -- Culture and Behavioral Economics -- D -- Decision Costs -- Democratic Socialism -- Demographics in Economics -- Discrimination and Behavioral Economics -- E -- Ecological Economics -- Economic Anthropology -- Economic Freedom -- Economic Growth -- Economic History -- Economic Psychology -- Economic Science Association -- Economic Sociology -- Economic Systems -- Traditional Economic System -- Market Economic System -- Command (Planned) Economic Systems -- Mixed Economic Systems -- Ekelund, Robert, Jr. -- Emotions and Decision-Making -- Endowment Effect -- Entrepreneurship -- Environmental Economics -- Environmental Protection Agency -- Environmentalism -- Estate Planning -- Understanding Estate Planning -- Estate-Planning Functions -- What Happens If Someone Dies Intestate (Without a Will)? -- How Does an Estate Plan Impact Probate?.

How Do Trusts Fit into an Estate Plan? -- Ethical Consumption -- Ethical Production -- Evolutionary Economics -- Experimental Economics -- F -- Factors of Production -- Fascism -- Shared Characteristics of Fascism -- Historical Background of Fascism -- The Appeal of Fascism -- Feminism and Behavioral Economics -- Financial Literacy -- Ford, Henry -- Forecasting and Modeling -- G -- Gold Rush Boom and Bust, 1848 -- Golden Rule and Behavioral Economics -- Gompers, Samuel -- The Great Depression and Wall Street Crash, 1929 -- Great Migration -- Green National Accounting -- H -- Habits -- Hamilton, Alexander -- Hayek, Friedrich von -- Health Economics -- Hobbes, Thomas -- Human Capital -- Early Human Capital Ideas -- Human Capital and the Business World -- How Important Is Human Capital? -- Human Rights and Decision-Making -- Hume, David -- Hurricane Katrina, 2005 -- Hurricane Sandy, 2012 -- I -- Identity Economics -- Identity Theft -- Different Forms of Identity Theft -- Impact of Identity Theft -- Identity Theft Prevention -- Immigration: Global Overview -- Industrial Revolution -- Informal Economy -- Institutional Economics -- Intellectual Property Rights -- Internal Revenue Service -- History -- The IRS Today -- IRS Enforcement -- IRS and Its Critics -- International Association for Research in Economic Psychology -- Intuition and Decision-Making -- Investing -- Financial Market Investing Options -- Real Estate Investing -- Iron Age -- J -- Jobs, Steve -- K -- Keynes, John Maynard -- Keynesian Economics -- Role of Monetary Policy -- Critics of Keynesian Economics -- L -- Land Use -- Law and Economics -- Adam Smith -- Lenin, Vladimir -- Agricultural Changes -- Industrial Changes -- Consumer Changes -- List, Friedrich -- Locke, John -- Long Run versus Short Run -- Long Run -- Short Run -- M -- Malthus, Thomas -- Marginal Analysis -- Market Capitalism.

Market Failure -- Marshall, Alfred -- Marx, Karl -- Marxism -- Menger, Carl -- Mercantilism -- Mill, John Stuart -- Mises, Ludwig von -- Money, History of -- Durability -- Portability -- Divisibility -- Uniformity -- Limited Supply -- Acceptability -- Mont Pelerin: A Crisis in Economic Thought and Academia, 1947 -- Moral Motivation -- Moral Sentiments and Adam Smith -- Mun, Thomas -- N -- National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotation -- Natural Resources Economics -- New Classical Economic Thought -- New Deal -- New Institutional Economic Thought -- New Keynesian Economic Thought -- New York Stock Exchange -- NIMBY and LULU -- Nobel Prize in Economics -- Non-Governmental Organization -- Nuclear Energy, Safety, and Waste -- O -- Opportunity Cost -- P -- Paternalism -- Path Dependency -- Payments for Environmental Services -- Peace Corps of the United States -- Peace Economics -- Population -- Portfolio Management -- Portfolio Construction and Management -- Poverty -- Pre-Classical Economic Thought -- Prisoner's Dilemma -- Private Property -- Privatization -- Production Possibilities Curve -- Progressive Era -- Prohibition -- Q -- Quesnay, François -- R -- Rational Expectations -- Rationality: Process and Neoclassical -- Reagan, Ronald -- Reasons -- Recycling -- Regulation and Oversight of Financial Institutions -- Relative Thinking -- Religion and Decision-Making -- Resources -- Ricardo, David -- Rockefeller, John D. -- Roosevelt, Franklin D. -- S -- Sarbanes-Oxley Act -- Say, Jean-Baptiste -- Schumpeter, Joseph -- Second Industrial Revolution -- Self-Control -- Seminole Tribe of Florida v. Florida -- Case Summary -- September 11 Terrorist Attacks and Recession, 2001 -- Slavery and Slave Trade -- Smith, Adam -- Social Capital and Behavioral Economics -- Social Capital and Personal Capital -- Social Lending or Peer-to-Peer Lending.

Borrowing and Lending with Peer-to-Peer -- Disadvantages of Social Lending Platforms -- Advantages of Peer-to-Peer Lending -- Social Preferences within a Population -- Social Security -- History of Social Security -- Social Security Retirement Benefits -- Who Receives Social Security Benefits? -- How Much Do Social Security Recipients Receive? -- What Is Social Security Disability Insurance? -- Additional Social Security Facts -- Security, Demographic Trends, and the Future -- Socialism -- Society for the Advancement of Behavioral Economics -- Stalin, Joseph -- Standard &amp -- Poor's 500 -- Suicide -- Supreme Court -- Sustainability -- T -- Tableau Economique -- Thatcher, Margaret -- Theory of Public Choice -- Trade-Offs -- Tversky, Amos -- U -- United Nations System -- United States Census Bureau -- United States Mint -- United States Society for Ecological Economics -- University Economics Departments -- Urbanization -- W -- War of 1812 -- Wealth versus Income -- Welfare Economics -- Wicksteed, Philip -- Wills and Trusts -- History of Wills and Trust -- Specialty Trusts -- World War II Rationing and Shortages, 1940s -- About the Editor -- Contributors -- Index -- Volume 2 -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction to Volume 2: Macroeconomics -- A -- Aggregate Demand and Aggregate Supply -- Aggregate Demand -- Aggregate Supply -- Agrarian Economy -- Alaska Dept. of Environmental Conservation v. EPA -- Case Summary -- Alchian, Armen -- Automatic Stabilizers -- B -- Bank of the United States, Closure and Lower Tariffs, 1833 -- Banking Act of 1933 (Glass-Steagall Act) -- Bankruptcy Reform Act of 1978 -- Bernanke, Ben -- Bureau of Economic Analysis -- Bureau of Engraving and Printing -- Bureau of Labor Statistics -- Burns, Arthur -- C -- Churchill, Winston -- Labor Unions -- Redistribution of Income.

Colonial Hyperinflation and Currency Deflation, 1749.

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