Provided here is an extensive list of economic terms. These can be examined so that the teacher and students gradually become familiar with the "language" of economics. Do not expect to know the meanings of all of these terms. Make notes related to definitions as words are encountered.
ability
ability-to-pay theory
absolute advantage
acceptability
acceptance
acceptor
accident insurance
accident prevention
accounting
achievement tests
acquisition
acreage quotas
actual production
ad valorem taxes
add-on method, of determining cost of loan
adjusted -balance method
administered price
administration
administrative costs
Adult Basic Education
advance
Advertising Council
advertising
advertising appeals
advisory council
AFL-CIO
agency shop
agency-shop contracts
agent
agents (marketing)
agents, fiscal
aggregate demand
aggregate income
aggregate production
aggregate supply of goods
agri-businesses
Agricultural Act
Agricultural Adjustment Act
Agricultural Marketing Service
Agricultural Revolution
agricultural credit
agriculture
Agriculture, Department of
Aid to Families With Dependent Children
Aid to Migrants
aid
AIDS
Air Pollution Control Act
airlines
all-risks policy, homeowners insurance
All-Union Communist Party
Alliance for Labor Action
Alliance for Progress
allocation of resources
allowances
Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America
amalgamation (consolidation)
American Stock Exchange
American Banking Association
American Dental Association
American economic system
American Federation of Labor
American Federation of Teachers
American Home Economics Association
American Medical Association
American Red Cross
American Standards Association
American Stock Exchange
American Telephone and Telegraph Company
American Watchmakers Union
AMTRAK
annual improvement factor
annual percentage rate
annual report
annuity
annuity insurance
antipoverty programs
antiprotectionists
antitrust laws
appeals, advertising
application form, job
appraisal
apprentice
Appropriations Committee, House of Representatives
appurtenant private structure
aptitudes
arbitration (compulsory/voluntary)
arbitrator
articles of copartnership
articles of incorporation
assembly line
assessment
assessor
assets
automatic stabilizers
automatic teller machines
automatic transfer plan
automation
automobile insurance
average-daily-balance method
baby-boomers
backing for money
bait and switch advertising
balance of payments
balance of trade
balance sheet
balanced budget
balloon payment
band-wagon approach, advertising
bank (commercial) credit
bank deposits
bank draft
bank money order
bank reconciliation
bank reserves
bank statement
bank teller
bankruptcy
banks
bargain
bargaining
bargaining, collective
barriers to entry
barter
base date
base period
base year
basic economic security
basis for credit
bears
beneficiary
benefit payments
benefit tax
benefit theory
benefits
benefits, fringe
benefits-received principle
better business bureaus
big business
big labor
big-ticket items
Bill of Rights
bill of exchange
bill of lading
bill of sale
billing errors
bimetallism
black market
blacklists
blank endorsement
blue-collar worker
board of directors
bodily injury liability
bodily injury liability insurance
bondholders
bonds
bonds (corporation)
bonus
book value
bookkeeper
boom and bust
borrower
borrowing
borrowing (business)
Boston Tea Party
boycott
brand
brand label
brand loyalty
brand names
brand-name products
brassage
breach of warranty
bread lines
broker
budget
built-in controls
bull(s)
bullion
Bureau of Internal Revenue
Bureau of Labor Statistics
Bureau of Standards
Bureau of the Budget
Bureau of the Census
bureaucracy
business
business agent
business combinations
business corporations
business credit
business cycles
business failure
business income tax
business indicators
business investment
business investors
business organizations
business plan
business taxes
business unit (firm)
business-service cooperatives
buyer
buyer's market
buying
buying power
bylaws
callable bonds
canceled check
canons (principles) of taxation
capacity
capital
capital (producers') goods
capital account
capital accumulation
capital appreciation
capital equipment
capital formation
capital funds
capital goods
capital investment
capital resource scarcity
capital resources
capital stock
capitalism
capitalizing income
capitation taxes
CARE
career
career choice
career clusters
career ladder
career opportunities
Carnegie, Andrew
carrying charges
cartel
cash and credit buying
cash discounts
cash dividends
cash loans
cash payments
cash record
cash sale
cash spending plan
cash value
cash-value life insurance
cashier's check
catalog
caveat emptor
caveat venditor
Census Bureau
central city
central planning
centralized control
certificate of deposit
certificate of incorporation (charter)
certification
certified check
chain stores
Chamber of Commerce
changes in demand
channel of distribution
character
charge account
charter
charter (certificate of incorporation)
charter of incorporation
charts
check
check register
check stub
checkbook
checking accounts
checkoff
checks and balances, economic
child care
child labor
choice
Christmas clubs
circular flow of goods and services
circular flow of money
circulating capital
circulation
citizenship responsibilities
Civil Aeronautics Board
Civil Rights Act of 1964
Civilian Conservation Corps
civilian labor force
claims
class restitution actions
class struggle
classical theory of economics
classless system
Clayton Act
Clayton Antitrust Act
Clean Air Act
clean-up time
clearance sales
clearing house
clerical jobs
clerical workers
closed shop
closed shop coinsurance clause
closed-shop agreements
closing costs
co-operatives
co-prosperity
cognizability
coinage
coins
coinsurance
Cold War
collateral
collateral (surety)
collectibles
collection agent
collective bargaining
collective decision makers
collective farms
collectivization
collision insurance
colonialism
comaker
comaker (surety)
command economy
command system
Commerce, Department of
commercial (bank) credit
commercial (contract) rent
commercial bank
commercial credit
commercial draft
commercial paper
commercial rent
commercials
commission merchants
committed spending
Committee for Economic Development
Committee for Industrial Organization
Committee on Political Education
commodities
commodities exchange
Commodity Credit Corporation
Commodity Exchange Authority
commodity futures trading
commodity loans
commodity markets
Common Market
common ownership
common stock
communes
communication
communication skills
communism
Communist block
Communist Manifesto
Communist Party
community of interest
companies, holding
companies, subsidiary
company store
company town
company union
comparative advantage
comparative shopping
compensated dollar
compensation funds
compensatory payment plan
competent parties
competition
competitive price
competitive profits
complementary goods
compound interest
compounding
Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA)
comprehensive personal liability policy
comprehensive physical damage insurance
Comptroller of Currency
compulsory arbitration
compulsory education
compulsory health insurance
compusense
computational skills
computer operator
computer service technician
computers
concentration
concentration (marketing)
concentration, in industry
conciliation
condominiums
confidence
conglomerate
Congress of Industrial Organizations
Congress, powers of
conservative party
conservation
conservatives
consideration
consolidation (amalgamation)
consolidation loan
conspicuous consumption
conspiracy
constant dollars
constant returns to scale
Constitution, U. S.
Consumer Affairs Office
Consumer Federation of America
Consumer Marketing Service
Consumer Price Index
Consumer Product Safety Act
Consumer Product Safety Commission
Consumer Service Bureau
consumer
consumer (personal) credit
consumer advertising
consumer affairs, office of
consumer agencies
consumer cooperatives
consumer credit
consumer credit laws
consumer demand
consumer education
consumer expenditures
consumer finance companies
consumer finance company
consumer goods
consumer information
consumer movement
consumer price index
consumer prices
consumer protection
consumer research agencies
consumer services
consumer's home mortgage loan
consumer(s) borrowing
consumer-sponsored services
Consumers Federation of America
Consumers Union
Consumers Union of the United States, Inc.
Consumers Union, Inc.
Consumers' Research, Inc.
consumers' cooperatives
consumers' credit unions
consumers' loans
consumerism
consumption
consumption possibilities
consumption taxes
consumption, taxes on
container ships
contract
contract (commercial) rent
contraction
contractual interest
control consumption
control, centralized
controlled economy
controlling interest
convenience foods
convenience stores
convertible bonds
convertible preferred stock
cooling-off period
cooperative banks
cooperative movement
cooperative societies
cooperative work program
cooperatives
copyright
copyright protection
corporate bond(holders)
corporate income tax
corporate profits
corporate saving
corporate securities
corporate stock
corporation
corporation securities
correspondent banks
cosigner
cost effective
cost of living adjustment
cost push
cost-benefit analysis
cost-of-living (escalator) wage clauses
cost-of-service principle
cost-of-service-received theory of taxation
cost-push inflation
costs
costs, fixed
Council For Urban Affairs
Council of Economic Advisers
councils
countersigning
countervailing power
coupon bonds
courier service
courts
courts, small claims
craft guilds
craft union
credit
credit agreement
credit application form
credit bureau
credit card
credit card companies
credit counselor
credit history
credit instrument
credit life insurance
credit limit
credit manager
credit rating
credit scoring system
credit standing
credit terms
credit union
credit worthiness
credit-bank plan
credit-rating agencies
creditor
creditor nation
creeping inflation
crime
crime control
crop insurance
crop loans
crop rotation
Cropland Adjustment Act
crops, staple
cross picketing
cultivation
cultural goals
cumulative preferred stock
currency
current account
current dollars
customer
customer expectation
customer satisfaction
customs duties
cutthroat competition
cycle billing
cycle, business
cyclical unemployment
daily cash record
Davis-Bacon Act
death benefits
death rate
debenture bond
debit
debt
debt, national
debtor nations
decentralization of corporations
deceptive advertising
decision makers
decreasing term insurance
deductible clause
deductions
deed
default
defective agreement
defense
defense spending
deferred annuity
deferred payments
deficit
deficit budget
deficit financing
deficit spending
defined benefit plans
deflation
degressive tax
delivery charges
demand
demand curve
demand deposit
demand for loanable funds
demand pull
demand schedule
demand-pull inflation
democracy
demographics
dental care insurance
Department of Agriculture
Department of Commerce
Department of Health Education and Welfare
Department of Justice
Department of the Treasury
dependents
dependents' benefits
deposit currency
deposit ticket
depositors
depository institutions
deposits
depreciation
depression
deprivation
derivative deposits
derived demand
descriptive label
devaluation (of currency)
developing countries
diminishing marginal utility
diminishing returns
diminishing utility
direct assistance
direct labor
direct marketing
direct strike
direct taxes
directed economy
disability benefit laws
disability insurance
discount
discount houses
discount method
discount rates
discount stores
discount, cash
discount, in business
discount-rate policy
discretionary funds
discrimination
disguised unemployment
dislocation
dispersion
dispersion (marketing)
disposable personal income
distribution
distribution niches
distribution systems
distributive strategy
divided charge account
dividends
divisibility
division of labor (specialization)
dollar
dollar cost of credit
dollar glut
dollar shortages
domestic
domestic (inland) bill
domestic bill
domestic goods
domestic system
double digit inflation
double taxation
Dow Jones Industrial Average
down payment
draft
drawee
drawer
drug trade
dumping
durability
durable goods
duties, customs
duty
duty rates
dynamics
earned money income
earnings
earthquake insurance
easy payments
ecology
Economic Advisers, Council of
Economic Opportunity Act
Economic Report of the President
economic (pure) profit
economic aid
economic analysis
economic application
economic decision
economic development
economic efficiency
economic emergencies
economic freedom
economic goals
economic goods
economic growth
economic incentive
economic indicators
economic information
economic institution
economic justice
economic law
economic model
economic nationalism
economic principle
economic problem
economic profit
economic rent (for land)
economic resource
economic roles
economic security
economic service
economic stability
economic system
economic theory
economic value
economic wants
economics
economies of scale
economist
economizing
economy
economy, agrarian
education
effective demand
efficiency, production
elasticity of demand
elderly
Electronic Funds Transfer Systems
element of a contract
eligibility
embargo
emergencies
Emergency Price Control
Act
eminent domain
emotional advertising
emotional appeals
employees
employers
Employment Act of 1946
employment
employment agencies
Employment, trends
employment, guaranteed
endorse
endorsement
endorsement
endowment insurance
endowment plan
energy
energy crisis
energy efficiency ratio
Engel's laws
engineers
enterprise
enterprise, free
entertainment
entrepreneur (enterpriser)
entrepreneurial risks
environment
Environmental Protection Agency
Equal Credit Opportunity Act
Equal Opportunity Act
equilibrium point
equilibrium price
equipment
equity
equity shares
escalator (cost-of-living) wage clauses
essential wants
estate taxes
ethics
European Currency Unit
European Economic Community (EEC)
European Free Trade Association (EFTA)
evaluation
excess reserves
excess-profits tax
exchange
exchange control
exchange rate
exchange rate
exchange value
excise tax
executives
exemption (tax)
exemptions
expanding economy
expansion
expenditures
Export-Import Bank
exports
express contract
express money orders
express warranty
extended coverage
external economies
externality, negative
extractive industries
face value
face, of check
factors
factors of production
factory method
factory outlet
Fair Credit Billing Act
Fair Credit Reporting Act
Fair Debt Collection Bill
Fair Debt collection Practices Act
Fair Labor Standards Act
Fair Packaging and Labeling Act
fair employment practices
fair-trade laws
family budget
family income
Farm Credit Administration
farm
farm flight
farm workers
farmers' cooperative
fascism
fashions
fast food
favorable balance of trade
fax machine
FDA
featherbedding
Federal Advisory Council
Federal Aviation Agency
Federal budget
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Federal Cigarette Labeling and Advertising Act
Federal Communications Commission
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
Federal Food and Drug Administration
Federal Home Loan Bank
Federal Housing Administration
Federal income tax
Federal Insurance Contributions Act
Federal Meat Inspection Act
Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service
Federal Open Market Committee
Federal Power Commission
Federal Reserve Act
Federal Reserve banks
Federal Reserve Board
Federal Reserve Notes
Federal Reserve notes
Federal Reserve System
Federal Savings and Loan Insurance Corporation
Federal Trade Commission
Federal Truth in Lending Act
Federal utility commissions
Federal Wage-Hour Law
federal budget
federal consumer agencies
federal debt
federal expenditures
fees
feudal economies
feudalism
FHA-insured loans
fictitious pricing
final good
final products
finance charge
finance companies
financial affairs
financial institutions
financial management
financial planning
financial responsibility law
financing
finding a niche
Fire Underwriters Laboratory
fire insurance
firm (business unit)
fiscal agent
fiscal policy
fixed capital
fixed costs
fixed expenses
fixed income
fixed investment
fixed overhead
fixed payments
flat money
flexible budget
flexible rate
flexible supports
flood control
flow of goods and services
flow of money
flow, income and expenditures
Food and Agriculture Organization
Food and Drug Administration
Food for Freedom
food crops
food stamps
Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act
food, production
Ford, Henry
forecasting
foreclosure
foreign aid
foreign bill
foreign competition
foreign currency
foreign exchange
foreign exports
foreign investment
foreign loans
foreign purchasers
foreign subsidiary
foreign trade
Forest Service
forest conservation
forgery
fossil fuels
fractional reserve banking system
franchise
franchisee
Free World
free capital
free coinage
free competition
free economy
free enterprise
free enterprise economy
free enterprise system
free goods
free market
free private enterprise
free reserve
free trade
freedom
freedom of choice
freedom of enterprise
frictional unemployment
friends and family
fringe benefits
Full Opportunity Act
full employment
full endorsement
full-service stores
funds, discretionary
future or future sale
gambling
gap
garbage collection
garnishment
gasoline taxes
GATT (The General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade)
General Accounting Office
general medical expense insurance
general partnerships
general sales tax
general strike
general welfare clause
generic labeling
generic products
ghettos
gift tax
goals
going outside for services
gold
gold export point
gold payments
gold-coin standard
gold-par rate
goldsmiths
Gompers, Samuel
Good Housekeeping seal of approval
goods
goods-producing occupations
gosplan
Government Printing Office
government
government agencies
government bonds
government expenditures
government income
government intervention
government purchases
government regulation and services
government securities
government services
government spending
government workers
government-owned (public) corporations
grace period
grade label
grading
grant
grantee
grantor
grants-in-aid
graphs
Great Depression
green revolution
greenback
Gresham's law
grievance procedure
gross
gross interest
gross national debt
gross national income
gross national income
gross national product (GNP)
gross national product per capita
gross pay
gross private domestic investment
gross private domestic investment
gross private domestic saving
gross profit
gross-receipts tax
gross-sales tax
group insurance
group life insurance
group spending
growth
growth process
growth rate
guage blocks
guaranteed annual income
guaranteed annual wage (GAW)
guaranteed insurability
guaranteed renewable policy
guaranteed stock association
guideposts
guilds
half-truth technique, advertising
handicapped
hardware
hazards
head (poll) tax
health and accident hazards
health and accident insurance
health inspection
health insurance
health insurance, federal
health maintenance
health plans, group
Health, Education, and Welfare, Department of
Health, Education, and Welfare, Department of
health, government expenditures
heavy industries
hedging against inflation
hidden taxes
highway systems, financing
highways
holder in due course
holding company
home
home buying
home market
home mortgage
home owners insurance
home ownership
homelessness
homeowners policy
homogeneity
HOPE
horizontal combination
horizontal integration
hospital expense insurance
hours of labor
hours of work
House of Representatives
household
household income
household inventory
Housing and Urban Development, Act
Housing and Urban Development, Department of
housing
Housing, and National Housing Act of 1934
housing, public
human relations skills
human resources
ideas
immediate annuity
immigration
imperfect competition
imperialism
implied contract
implied warranty
import quota
imports
impulse buying
impulse items
imputed interest
imputed wages
incentives
income
income effect
income levels
income redistribution
income security
income tax
income tax exemptions
income tax withholding
income-maintenance
incontestability clause
incorporate
incorporation
independent union
index numbers
indicators
indirect (tax)
indirect business taxes
indirect taxes
Individual Retirement Account
individual (sole) proprietorship
individual decision makers
individual enterprise
individual income tax
individual life insurance
individualism
indivisible goods
industrial banks
industrial countries
industrial development
industrial jurisprudence
industrial research
industrial revolution
industrial union
industrial world
industrialization
industry
industry standards for labeling
industry-wide strike
infant industries
inferior goods
inflation
inflation prone
information
infrastructure
inheritance taxes
injunction
inland (domestic) bill
inland bill
innovations
innovative product
input-output accounts system
insolvency
installment buying
installment contact
installment credit
installment debt
installment loan
installment plan
installments
Institute of Home Economics and Cooperative Extension Service
institution
institution (economic)
insurable interest
insurance
insurance claims representative
insurance companies
insurance policy
insurance, automobile
insurance, income
insurance, property
insured mortgage
insurer
intangible property
intangible wants
integration, industrial
interchangeable parts
interdependence
interest
interest income
interest rate
interest, community of
interest, compound
interest, imputed
interlocking directorates
intermediate product
intermediate-term credit
Internal Revenue Service
Internal Revenue Service
internal combustion engine
International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD)
International Labor Organization
International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union
International Monetary Fund (IMF)
international cartel
international debts
international financial analyst
international gold standard
international investment
international market
international trade
international unions
Interstate Commerce Commission
Interstate Highway System
interstate
interview, job
intrastate
intrinsic value
inventory
investing
investment
investment banks
investment credit
investment funds
investment trust
investor
investors, business
invisible (export or import) item
invisible item
involuntary bankruptcy
ITO (International Trade Organization)
Job Corps
Job Program
job
job categories
job hunting
job interview
job market
job outlook
job security
job training
job trends
jobs, entry-level
Joint Economic Committee
joint checking account
joint cost
joint savings account
journeymen
jurisdiction, union
jurisdictional disputes
jurisdictional strikes
Kennedy-Landrum-Griffin Act
Keogh Plan
labeling
Labor Department
Labor productivity
labor
labor and management
labor force
labor movement
labor organizations
labor relations
labor resource scarcity
labor resources
labor statistics
labor unions
Labor's League for Political Education
Labor, Department of
Labor-Management Relations Act (Taft-Hartley Act)
Labor-Management Relations Act of 1947
Labor-Management Reporting and Disclosure Act (Landrum-Griffin Act)
Labor-Management Reporting and Disclosure Act of 1959
labor-management relations
laborers
laissez-faire
land
land contracts
land grants
landlord
landowners
Landrum-Griffin Act
large-scale production
lasers
Latin American Free Trade Association
law
law enforcement
law of comparative advantage or cost
law of demand
law of diminishing marginal utility
law of diminishing returns
law of scarcity
law of supply
law of supply and demand
laws, consumer credit
lawyer
layoff
leadership training
lease
legal aid societies
legal bargain
legal form, proper
legal forms of business organizations
legal monopoly
legal questions
legal reserve
legal tender
leisure
leisure time
lemon
lend-lease program
lenders, private
lessee
lessor
letter of application
level of living
level-premium insurance
leveraged buyout
liabilities
liability
liability insurance
liability insurance
liberals
license
licensee
licenses and permits
licensing
licensure
liens
life expectancy
life expectancy tables
life insurance
limitations, statute of
limited liability
limited partnership
limited-payment life insurance
limited-payment plan
limiting output
line of credit
liquid
liquid assets
liquid liability
liquidation
liquidity
liquidity preference
listed stock
littering
living costs
living standards
living, level of
loan
loan and purchase agreement
loan insurance
loanable funds
loans
lobby
lobbyist
local and state governments
local government
local market
local union
locals
lockout
logarithmic scale
long run
long-term bonds
long-term credit
long-term loans
loss
loss leaders
losses
lotteries
luxuries
machinery
macroeconomics
Magnuson-Moss Warranty and Federal Trade Commission Improvement Act of 1975
mail-order catalogs
maintenance-of-membership clause
major medical expense insurance
major medical insurance
major monetary control
Malthus, Thomas
managed currency
management
management and labor
managers
Manpower Development and Training Act
manpower
manpower resources
manual dexterity skills
manufacturers' tax
manufacturing
margin
margin (buying on)
margin requirements
marginal cost
marginal land
marginal producers
marginal product
marginal productivity
marginal revenue product
marginal utility
market
market and exchange mechanisms
market clearing price
market demand
market economy
market failure
market information
market place
market prices
market ratio
market ration
market research
market speculation
market structures
market system
market value
market, buyer's
market, commodity
market, free
market, monopoly
market, securities
marketing
marketing channels
marketing cooperatives
marketing function
marketing institutions
marketing quota
marketing quotas
Marshall Plan
Marx, Karl
mass consumption
mass market
mass media
mass picketing
mass production
master
master workmen
material goods
mature economy
maturity date
maturity, of note
maximum price
measure of value
Meat Inspection Act 1906
median
mediation
mediator
Medicaid
medical care
medical insurance
medical payments
medical payments insurance
Medicare
medium of exchange
megalopolis
member banks
mercantilism
merchandise
merchandise buyer
merchandising
merchant
merchants' guilds
merchants' tax
mergers
metallic money
methods of mobilization
microeconomics
Middle Ages
middle income families
middlemen
migrant workers
Military Affairs Committee, House of
military assistance
military service
Miller-Tydings Act
minerals
minimum prices
minimum wage
minor
minority groups
mint ratio
misrepresentation
mixed economies
mixed economy
mobile homes
mobility
mobility of labor
monetary assets
monetary controls
monetary policy
monetary reform
monetary unit
money
money (nominal) wages
money capital
money flow
money income
money order
monthly installment
money supply
money value
money wages
monetary policy
monopolistic competition
monopoly
monopoly profits
monopsony
monotony, factory work
monthly statement
moonlighting
moratorium
mortality tables
mortgage
mortgage bond
mortgage companies
mortgagee
mortgagor
multinational
multinational corporations
multinational
multiple bank credit contraction
multiple bank credit expansion
multiplier
multiplier effect
multiplier theory
municipal
municipal bonds
mutual assent
mutual fund
mutual insurance company
mutual savings bank
National Advertising Review Board
National Bureau of Economic Research
National Bureau of Standards
National Business Council for Consumer Affairs
National Consumers League
National Credit Administration
National Flood Insurance Program
National Health Service
National Highway Safety Commission
National Housing Act of 1934
National Insurance Act
National Labor Relations Act (Wagner Act)
National Labor Relations Board
National Mediation Board
National Safety Council
National Traffic and Motor Vehicle Safety Act
national bank
national debt
national economic growth
national economy
national income
national market
national output
national security
national security expenditures
national union
national wealth
nationalism
nationalization
NATO
natural monopoly
natural resource scarcity
natural resources
Nazism
near-money
necessary wants
necessities
needs
negotiable bill of lading
negotiable order of withdrawal account
Neighborhood Youth Corps
net
net (pure) interest
net exports
net foreign exports
net income
net interest
net national product
net private domestic investment
net private domestic saving
net profit
net worth
New Deal
New York Stock Exchange
new products
newly industrialized countries
news media
no-fault insurance
no-name products
no-par-value stock
no-strike clause
nominal (money) wages
nominal wages
noncumulative preferred stock
nondiscrimination
nondurable consumer goods
nondurable goods
noneconomic want(s)
nonessential wants
noninstallment credit
noninstallment debt
nonmaterial goods
nonparticipating preferred stock
nonprice competition
nonprofit corporations
nonrefund annuity
normal goods
normal price
Norris-LaGuardia Act
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
notes, discounting
notes, federal reserve
notes, promissory
objectivity
obsolescence
occupation
Occupational Outlook Handbook
occupational families
OECD (The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development)
offer
offeree
offeror
Office of Consumer Affairs
Office of Economic Opportunity
Office of Minority Business Enterprise
Office of Price Administration
officers
officers (corporation)
Oil crisis
oil
old-age insurance
oligopoly
on-the-job-training
OPEC (The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries)
open accounts
open shop
open-end mortgage
open-market operations
open-shop agreements
operating costs
operatives
opinion, legal
opportunity costs
option
option account
optional wants
oral contract
Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development
Organization for European Economic cooperation
Organization of American States
Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries
organizations, business
organized commodity exchange
organized labor
out, limiting
output
over-payments
over-the-counter
overexpansion
overhead costs
overspeculation
overtime
overtime pay
ownership
ozone
Pacific Coast Stock Exchange
package deal
package plan
packaging
paper currency
paper money
par value
par-value stock
parent company
parity
parity price supports
parity prices
partial-payment mortgage
participating preferred stock
participatory activities
partner
partnership
partnership agreement
partnership contract
patents
patronage dividend
patronage refunds
pawnshops
payee
payment
payments, balance of
payrolls
Peace Corps
peak
peak, of business cycle
pension plans
per capita
per capita disposable personal income
per capita GNP
per capita income
per capita national debt
per capita output
performance
perils
permit
personal (consumer) credit
personal consumption expenditures
personal credit
personal data sheet
personal distribution of income
personal income
personal income tax
personal liability
personal liability coverage
personal loan
personal property
personal property tax
personal saving
personal service workers
personal taxes
personality
personality traits
personnel
personnel officer
personnel worker
picket lines
picketing, types of
piecework
pipelines, and distribution of goods
policy
policy holder
policy, life insurance
policyholder
Political Action Committee
political activities
political freedom
political power
political pressure
politics
poll (head) tax
pollution
pool
population
population explosion
portability
portfolio
possible market and opposition
Postal Service, United States
postal money orders
potential customers
poverty
poverty income gap
poverty level
poverty line
poverty, war on
precious metals
precooked foods
preferential-shop arrangement
preferred stock
premium
premium, insurance
premiums, and trading stamps
present worth
previous-balance method
price
price ceiling
price competition
price controls
price elastic
price index number
price indexes
price inelastic
price level
price schedule
price supports
price system
price-fixing
prices, consumer
pricing, unit
primary advertising
primary boycott
primary deposit
primary wants
principal
principles (canons) of taxation
priorities
prison systems
private corporation
private demand
private enterprise
private enterprise system
private insurance
private lender
private monopolies
private property
private sector
private wants
private wealth
privatization
problem-solving process
processed goods
Producer Price Index
producer
producer's costs
producers' (capital) goods
product
product differentiation
product niches
product perfection
product safety
production
production changes
production cooperatives
production costs
production efficiency
production factors
production possibilities
production possibility curve
productive capacity
productive effort
productive resources
productivity
productivity, factors affecting
products
professional organizations
professional workers
profit
profit margin
profit motive
profit, excess
profit, normal
profit-sharing plan
profits
progressive tax
promissory note
promotional sale
propaganda
property
property damage
property damage liability
property income
property insurance
property tax
property, personal
proportional tax
proportional taxes
proprietor
proprietors' income
proprietorship
proprietorship
prosperity
protectionism
protectionists
protective tariff
prototype
proxy
public (government-owned) corporations
public assistance
public debt
public domain
public expenditures
public goods
public health
public health services
public housing
public monopolies
public policy
public property
public relations worker
public safety
public sector
public services
public utilities
public utilities commission
public wants
public wealth
public welfare
public, goods and services for
pump priming
punitive tax
purchasing cooperatives
purchasing power
purchasing-power parity theory
pure (economic) profit
pure (net) interest
pure capitalism
pure competition
pure interest
pure monopoly
pure profit
pyramiding control
quality
quality control
quality of life
quantity
quantity theory of money
quitclaim deed
quotas
Railpax
railroads
Railway Labor Act
rate
rate discrimination
rate of exchange
rate of formation
rate of profit
rate of return (on investment)
rates
rational advertising
rational appeals
rationing
raw goods
raw materials
real annual interest rate
real cost
real dollar
real estate
real estate broker
real estate controls
real estate mortgage
real estate property tax
real flow
real income
real property
real wages
receipts
receipts (government)
recession
Reciprocal Trade Agreements Act
records
recovery
recycling
redeem
refund
refund annuity
refunding (debt)
regional market
registered bonds
registered trademark
registration
regressive tax
regular charge account
regulation
regulatory agency
reinvestment
relation to technology
remedial loans
remedies
rent
rental income of persons
Reorganization Act of 1970
repossession
representation, type of
representative value
Representatives
required reserve
research
research and development
reserve requirement
reserve, types of
resource allocation
resources
restriction of output
restrictive endorsement
resume
resume writing
retail
retail stores
retailer
retailing
retained earnings
retirement
Revenue Act of 1964
revenue
revenue-sharing
revolving charge account
rider
right-to-work laws
rights
rights, consumer bill of
risk
risk bearing
risk, in insurance
robots
robots, industrial
royalty
references
rural problems
sabotage
safe deposit boxes
safety, product
salary
sale, bill of
sales figures
sales tax
salespeople
savers
saving
savings
savings accounts
savings and loan associations
savings bonds
savings certificate
savings certificates of deposit
savings passbook
savings program
scabs
scale of living
scale of production
scarcity
scientific method
seal of approval
searching for a niche in the market
seasonal goods
secondary boycott
secondary picketing
secondary wants
secret partners
secretary
secured bonds
secured credit sale
secured loan
Securities and Exchange Commission
securities
securities market
securities, corporation
security agreement
sedentary activities
seigniorage
selective advertising
self-interest
self-inventory
self-regulated market
self-sufficient
seller's market
sellers
selling
semi-skilled workers
Senate
senior citizens
seniority
seniority clause
seniority rating
Series E and EE savings bonds
Series H and HH savings bonds
service accounts
service charges
service cooperatives
service firms
service occupations
service sector
service tax
service workers
service, economic
services
settlement costs
settlement options
severance taxes
shared appreciation mortgage
shareholders
shares
Sherman Antitrust Act
shifting a tax
shipping companies
shop steward
shop, agency
shopping
short weight
short-term credit
short-term loans
shortage
signature card
silent partner
silver bullion
silver certificates
silver coins
silver standard
simple interest
single proprietorship
single-family dwelling
single-tax proposal
skilled workers
skills
slowdowns
Small Business Act of 1953
Small Business Administration
small loans
small-loan companies
Smith, Adam
Social Security Act
social accounting
social capital
social change
social cost
social goals
social institution
social insurance
social overhead capital
social problems
social security
social security payment
social security system
social security tax
social welfare
social work
socialism
society, problems of
software
Soil Conservation Act
Soil Conservation Service
soil bank
sole (individual ) proprietorship
sole proprietorship
special assessments
special endorsement
special taxes
specialization
specialization (division of labor)
specialization of labor
specialized capital
specialty stores
specific tariff
spectator activities
speculation
speculation, borrowing for
speculative profits
speculators
spending
spending plan
spillover benefits
spillover costs
stability
stability of value
stable economy
state governments
stagflation
stamp tax
Standard Metropolitan Statistical Areas
standard
standard fire policy
standard money
standard of identity
standard of living
standard of value
standard wage rates
standard, as buying guide
standardization
standardized parts
standardizing
staple crops
state aid
state bank
state capital
state government
state monopolies
statement, monthly
statistics
statute of limitations
steel industry
stock
stock certificate
stock dividends
stock exchange
stock holders
stock insurance company
stock market
stock market quotations
stock savings bank
stock, common
stock, corporate
stockbroker
stockholders
stop payment order
storage
store of value
stores
storing
straight life policy
strike
strikebreakers
structural unemployment
submarginal land
submarginal producers
subsidiary
subsidiary companies
subsidies
subsidized industries
subsidy
subsistence, level of living
substitute goods
substitution effect
suburbs
supermarkets
Supplementary Security Income
supplementary unemployment benefit
supplements to wages and salaries
supply and demand
supply curve
supply of goods, aggregate
supply of loanable funds
supply of labor
supply schedule
supply, and demand
supramarginal land
supramarginal producers
Supreme Court
surety
surety (comaker)
surgical expense insurance
surplus
surplus (corporate)
surplus (supply)
surplus budget
surveys, government
survivor's insurance
survivors' benefits
swap meets
sweatshops
sympathetic strike
synthetics
Taft-Hartley Act
take-home pay
takeover
tangible goods
tangible wants
Tariff Commission
tariffs
tax
tax base
tax burden
tax credits
tax evasion
tax payer
tax rebates
tax reductions
tax systems
tax-exempt bonds
taxable income
taxation
taxes
Teamsters
technical aid programs
technical workers
technological unemployment
technology
teenagers
telegraphic money order
telephone companies
telephone rates
telephone, payment by
television advertising
tenant
tenant farmers
Tennessee Valley Authority
tensions in economy
term insurance
term loans
term savings certificate
terms of trade
testing laboratories
Textile Workers Union of America
theft insurance
theory of wages
Third World
thrift institutions
tie-in contracts
tight money
timber land
time
time deposit
time utility
title
Tobacco Acreage-Poundage Act
token
token money
tolls
tools
total labor force
totalitarianism
tourist trade
townhouses
Trade Expansion Act of 1962
trade
trade acceptance
trade agreement
trade associations
trade barrier
trade channel
trade controls
trade expansion
trade name
Trade Reform Act of 1974
trade restrictions
trade union
trade unions training
trade, balance of
trademarks
tradeoffs
trading partners
trading stamps
trading, commodity futures
tradition
traditional economy
traditional system
traditions
training
transfer approach, advertising
transfer payment
transformation curve
transport
transportation
travel agent
travel, credit cards for
traveler's checks
treasury bills
treasury notes
Treasury, Department of
trend line
trends
trough
trough, of business cycle
trucking companies
trust department, bank's
trustee
trusts
Truth-in-Food Labeling Act
Truth-in-Lending law
Truth-in-Packaging law
turnover tax
undercapitalization
U.S. Bureau of Consumer Protection
U.S. Postal Inspection Service
uncertainty, in marketing
underdeveloped countries
underemployment
underproduction
underwrite
underwriter
Underwriters' Laboratories
undeveloped property
undistributed profits
unearned income
unearned money income
unemployed labor force
unemployed workers
Unemployment Trust Fund of U. S.
unemployment
unemployment compensation
unemployment insurance
unemployment rate
Unfair Trade Practices and Consumer Protection Law
unfair business practices
unfair employment practices
unfair labor practices
unfavorable balance of trade
Uniform Commercial Code
Uniform Limited Partnership Act
uninsured motorists
union -security clause
union federations
union label
union membership
union picket
union security
union shop
union-management cooperation
union-shop agreement
unions
unions, craft
unit cost
unit pricing
United Automobile Workers of America
United Electrical, Radio, and Machine Workers of America
United Farm Workers of America
United Hatters Union
United Mine Workers of America
United Nations
United Nations Development Programme
United States Department of Agriculture
United States Department of Labor
United States Department of the Treasury
United States Employment Service
United States Maritime Commission
United States notes
United States of Europe
United States Patent Office
United States Postal Service
United States Public Health Service
United States savings bonds
United States Treasury Department
United Steel Workers of America
universal programs
unordered merchandise
unsecured loan
unskilled workers
urban area
urban economics
urban growth
urban redevelopment
urban renewal
urbanization
usury law
usury laws
utilities
utilities, federal
utilities, public
utility
utility, marginal
VA-insured loans
value
value-added tax
value-of-service principle
variable costs
variable payments
variety store
vault cash
velocity of money
venture capitalist
vertical combination
vertical integration
vesting
Veterans' Administration
veterans' programs
visible (export and import) item
visible item
VISTA (Volunteers in Service to America)
vocational counseling
voidable contract
Volunteers in Service to America
volume of business
voluntary arbitration
voluntary bankruptcy
volunteer service
vote, economic
voting record
Wage and Hour Administration
Wage and Hour Law
wage and price controls
wage assignment
wage rates
wage system
wage-price freeze
wages
wages of management
Wagner Act
waiver of premium
Walsh-Healey Act
want ads
wants
War on Poverty Program
war
warehouse showrooms
warranty
warranty deed
Water Quality Act
water supply
watered stock
Wealth of Nations
wealth
weighted index numbers
weights and measures
welfare
welfare expenditures
welfare fund
welfare programs
Wheeler-Lea Act
white sales
white-collar occupations
white-collar workers
whole (straight) life policy
whole life insurance
whole life policy
Wholesale Price Index
wholesale
wholesale prices
wholesale trade
wholesalers
wholesaling
Wholesome Meat Act 1967
Wholesome Poultry Products Act 1968
wildcat strike
withdrawal
withholding tax
work experience
work force
work hours
work stoppages
work time
workers
workers' compensation
workers, blue-collar
working capital
working conditions
working reserves
working time
Workmen's Compensation
workplace
Works Progress Administration
workweek
World Bank (IBRD)
World Health Organization
World Wars I and II
world area
world market
world population
world trade
written contract
yellow-dog contracts
yield
Youth Opportunity Centers of the Neighborhood Youth Corps
youth market