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Cryptic Currents of Economic Theory
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- 1. Responsiveness of demand to price changes
- 2. Economic principle focusing on incremental change
- 3. Centralized allocation opposite to market spontaneity
- 4. Consumer swap when prices force an alternative
- 8. Government’s taxing and spending mechanism
- 12. Statistical analysis fueling economic hypothesis tests
- 13. Single buyer power stifling sellers’ leverage
- 15. Few firms dominate but do not quite collude
- 19. Price plunge shrinking money’s velocity
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- 5. Offsetting risk by balancing opposing positions
- 6. Process locking competitors into price-fixing collusion
- 7. Macro-level sum shaping broad economic outcomes
- 9. Philosophy maximizing aggregate pleasure in choices
- 10. Unintended ripple effects outside the market’s reach
- 11. Quantification to turn abstract goods into data
- 14. Ease converting assets to instant cash
- 16. Economic paradox mixing stagnation and inflation
- 17. Purchasing power eroded by steady price rise
- 18. System rewarding private ownership and profits
- 20. Financial contract born from underlying assets