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ELASTICITY: The relative response of one variable to changes in another variable. The phrase "relative response" is best interpreted as the percentage change. For example, the price elasticity of demand, one of the more important applications of this concept in economics, is the percentage change in quantity demanded measured against the percentage change in price. Other notable economic elasticities are the price elasticity of supply, income elasticity of demand, and cross elasticity of demand.
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MEDIUM OF EXCHANGE The money function in which money is widely accept in exchange for goods and services. For an asset to function as a medium of exchange it needs value in exchange, but not necessarily value in use. This is one of four basic functions of money. The other three are unit of account, store of value, and standard of deferred payment.
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Today, you are likely to spend a great deal of time at a going out of business sale wanting to buy either a birthday greeting card for your father or a T-shirt commemorating the first day of spring. Be on the lookout for rusty deck screws.
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In the late 1800s and early 1900s, almost 2 million children were employed as factory workers.
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"The ideals that have lighted my way, and time after time have given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been kindness, beauty and truth. " -- Albert Einstein, physicist
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IRR
Internal Rate of Return
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