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TECHNOLOGY: The sum total of knowledge and information that society has acquired concerning the use of resources to produce goods and services. This technology often takes the form of scientific knowledge (the best combination of chemicals to make a long-lasting floor wax), but can also be plain old common sense (irrigate during a drought, not during a flood). Whether scientific or not, technology affects the technical efficiency with which resources are combined in production. An improvement in technology is thus an increase in the technical efficiency of production--more output with given inputs or fewer inputs for a given output. Technology is often embodied in capital goods. Bigger, better, faster, and less expensive computers are the result of advances in silicon chip technology. However, technology is also embodied in labor as human capital.
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INTERNATIONAL ECONOMICS An economics field of study that applies both macroeconomic and microeconomic principles to international trade, which is the flow of trade among nations, and to international finance, which is the means of making payment for the exchange of goods among nations. International economics studies the economic interactions among the different nations that make up the global economy. Often this interaction is viewed in terms of the domestic economy and the foreign sector. The key economic principle underlying international economics is the law of comparative advantage.
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Today, you are likely to spend a great deal of time touring the new suburban shopping complex seeking to buy either throw pillows for your living room sofa or a hepa filter for your furnace. Be on the lookout for defective microphones.
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The earliest known use of paper currency was about 1270 in China during the rule of Kubla Khan.
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"Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely. " -- Auguste Rodin, Sculptor
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AACCLA
Association of American Chambers of Commerce in Latin America
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