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1 A

• Accounting
• Accounting reform
• Adaptive expectations
• Adverse selection
• Aggregate demand
• Aggregate supply
• Aggregation of individual demand to total, or market, demand
• Agricultural policy
• Arbitrage
• Arrow's impossibility theorem
• Asymmetrical information
• Auction
• Austrian SchoolThe Austrian School is a school of economic thought which rejects opposing economists' reliance on methods used in natural science for the study of human action and relationships through logic (or praxeology). Its most famous adherents are Friedrich Hayek
• AutarkyAn autarky is an economy that does no trade with the outside world and relies entirely on its own resources. It is also referred to as a " closed economy". Today autarky is found very rarely. An example of a currently run autarky is North Korea, but even

2 B

• Balance of tradeBalance of trade figures are the sum of the money gained by a given economy by selling exports, minus the cost of buying imports. They form part of the balance of payments, which also includes other transactions such as international investment. The figur
• BankruptcyBankruptcy is a legally declared inability or impairment of ability of an individual or organisation to pay their creditors. A declared state of bankruptcy can be requested or initiated by the bankrupt individual or organisation, or it can be requested by
• Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred NobelThe Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences ( Swe. Sveriges Riksbanks pris i ekonomisk vetenskap till Alfred Nobels minne , often inaccurately called The Nobel Prize in Economics or The Nobel Prize for Economics is different from the rest of prizes awar
• Behavioural economics
• Behavioral financeNobel' Prize in Economics winner, Daniel Kahneman, was an important figure in the development of behavioral finance and economics and continues to write extensively in the field. Behavioral finance and behavioral economics are closely related fields which
• Big Mac indexThe Big Mac index is an informal way of measuring whether one currency is at the theoretically correct exchange rate with another currency. The measure assumes that the theory of purchasing power parity (PPP) holds. The central idea tenet of PPP is that t
• Big Push Model
• Bioeconomics
• Black market
• Black-Scholes
• Bullionism
• Business cycle