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Wikipedia economy (plural economies)

  1. Effective management of the resources of a community or system.
  2. The collective focus of the study of money, currency and trade, and the efficient use of resources.
  3. Frugal use of resources.
  4. The system of production and distribution and consumption. The overall measure of a currency system; as the national economy.
  5. (theology) The method of divine government of the world.

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Thu Jul 29 18:45:39 2010

An economy consists of the economic system of a country or other area, the labor, capital and land resources, and the economic agents that socially participate in the production, exchange, distribution, and consumption of goods and services of that area. A given economy is the end result of a process that involves its technological evolution, history and social organization, as well as its geography, natural resource endowment, and ecology, as main factors. These factors give context, content, and set the conditions and parameters in which an economy functions.

Today the range of fields of study examining the economy include social sciences such as economics, sociology (economic sociology), history (economic history) and geography (economic geography). Practical fields directly related to the human activities involving production, distribution, exchange, and consumption of goods and services as a whole, range from engineering to management and business administration to applied science to finance. All kind of professions, occupations, economic agents or economic activities, contribute to the economy. Consumption, saving and investment are core variable components in the economy and determine market equilibrium. There are three main sectors of economic activity: primary, secondary and tertiary.

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Sat Jul 31 16:37:38 2010

What does the economy class on an airplane have?
Q. What's the difference between economy class and coach? Does economy have food and tv's? Sorry, not much intelligence on this subject.
Asked by Jonathan - Fri Aug 24 17:25:00 2007 - - 3 Answers - 0 Comments

A. Economy usually means coach; some airlines (like United) have an "economy plus," which is basically more leg room. Yes, economy serves food, although on domestic flights most airlines are now charging for it. They all have some sort of screen, but on short hops they usually don't show TV or films. Some have TV in the seat back in front of you, some have a drop-down screen, some just have large screens at the front of each cabin. If you'd like to check the amenities on a particular type of aircraft, this site is excellent:
Answered by tonalc1 - Fri Aug 24 17:44:50 2007

How is contraceptives going to help the economy?
Q. Nancy Pelosi has added into the stimulus package money for contraceptives.She thinks it will help the economy. It seems they are playing with issues that have no or little significance on the economy at this time.How is this going to help the economy?
Asked by Wethepeople - Mon Jan 26 16:21:27 2009 - - 5 Answers - 0 Comments

A. Infants born to unwed mothers cost a great deal of money in prenatal care, labor and delivery, etc. The biggest cost is in raising a child of an unwed or very poor mother who requires food stamps, medicaid and uses the emergency room for routine health care. Contraceptives (ie condoms) also help decrease the chance of getting a sexually transmitted disease. Hooray for Nancy Pelosi thinking this far ahead, since she is NOT one of my favorites.
Answered by Nurse Practitioner 33 years - Mon Jan 26 16:35:55 2009

What is the economy like for current and incoming flight attendants?
Q. Is the flight attendant career a good one to jump into? With the way the economy is going is it even possible to get hired and keep a secured job as a flight attendant?
Asked by Dirk Man - Mon Mar 1 01:35:25 2010 - - 3 Answers - 0 Comments

A. I wanna be cabin crew but this year is a bad year. Its a rewarding career but with the economic downturn there wont be many employers recruiting this year or next year. 2012 is meant to be the turnaround year when there will be a high demand for cabin crew and pilot's.
Answered by SMI05011459 - Tue Mar 2 13:43:24 2010

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Uncertain oil supply may become new risk for world economy: Standard & Poor's - Xinhua
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Uncertain oil supply may become new risk for world economy: Standard & Poor's - Xinhua
Thu, 29 Jul 2010 13:27:02 GMT+00:00
: Standard & Poor's Xinhua Wyss said there are some signals showing that the world economy is cooling off a bit, but he thinks the problem is just a moderate correction. ...
Europe Economic Confidence Rises as Exports Improve - Bloomberg
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Europe Economic Confidence Rises as Exports Improve - Bloomberg
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Bloomberg In the US, the world's largest economy , confidence among consumers dropped in July to the lowest level in a year. Today's indicators challenge the idea of ...
Uruguay Bank Chief Rules Out Risk of Inflation Surge as Economy Rebounds - Bloomberg
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Uruguay Bank Chief Rules Out Risk of Inflation Surge as Economy Rebounds - Bloomberg
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Rebounds Bloomberg Fitch Ratings today upgraded Uruguay's long-term foreign currency Issuer Default Rating to BB from BB-, saying the economy showed increased resilience to ...

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Diagram of the early modern world economy

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Rosenberg: Tough Slogging for the Economy | The Big Picture
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Source: A Modern-Day Depression: Rosenberg Sees Tough Slogging for the . Economy. Aaron Task Yahoo Tech Ticker Jul 29, 2010 08:00am.

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Indian economy : India looking to the rain gods | The Economist
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The Indian . economy. has one of the highest inflation rates among emerging market economies and is in danger of overheating. To get inflation back under control there is a case for redefining the role of the bank to focus on primarily on ...

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Fri Jul 30 15:14:35 2010

Economics is the social science that studies the production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services. The term economics comes from the Greek for oikos (house) and nomos (custom or law), hence "rules of the house(hold).

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  • In fact, without any exaggeration, the current mechanism of money creation through credit is certainly the "cancer" that's irretrievably eroding market economies of private property.
    • Maurice Allais, in La Crise mondiale d’aujourd’hui. Pour de profondes réformes des institutions financières et monétaires (1999), p. 74
  • The more opportunities there are in a Society for some persons to live upon the toil of others, and the less those others may enjoy the fruits of their work themselves, the more is diligence killed, the former become insolent, the latter despairing, and both negligent.
  • Capitalism is the exploitation of man by man. Yes? Well socialism is exactly the reverse.
    • Len Deighton, Funeral in Berlin (1964; repr. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1966) p. 145
    • Described there as a joke current in 1960s Czechoslovakia