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3M Co. absentee ownership acceptance account payable account receivable accounting actuary advertising Aeroflot -Russian Airlines AFL-CIO agribusiness Air France Airbus S.A.S. Akerlof, George A. Alcoa Alitalia allocation of resources Altria Group, Inc. American Airlines American Express Co.

American Motors Corp. (AMC) American Stock Exchange amortization Amtrak annuity APEC arbitrage Arden, Elizabeth Armour, Philip Danforth Arrow, Kenneth J(oseph) assessment AT&T Inc. Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad Co. auction audit Austrian school of economics BAE Systems balance of payments balance of trade balance sheet

Baltimore and Ohio Railroad (B&O) bank Bank of Canada Bank of England Banque de France barter BASF AG Bayer AG bear market Bechtel, Stephen D(avison) Becker, Gary S(tanley) Bell Laboratories Belmont family Bernays, Edward L. Bertelsmann AG Bethlehem Steel Corp. Better Business Bureau Bezos, Jeff(rey P.) Biddle, Nicholas bill of exchange

bimetallism black market BMW Boeing Co. Bon Marché bond bookkeeping BP PLC Bridges, Harry British Airways British American Tobacco PLC Buffett, Warren bull market bullionism business cycle business finance Cadbury, George Canadian Labour Congress (CLC) Canadian National Railway Co. Canadian Pacific Railway Ltd. (CPR)

capital capital gains tax capital levy capitalism Carnegie, Andrew cartel cash flow casualty insurance central bank Central Pacific Railroad certificate of deposit (CD) chamber of commerce Chase Manhattan Corp. Chavez, Cesar (Estrada) check Chesapeake and Ohio Railway Co. (C&O) Chicago and North Western Transportation Co. child labour Chrysler LLC Ciba-Geigy AG

Citigroup Citroën classical economics clearinghouse cliometrics closed shop Coase, Ronald (Harry) Coca-Cola Co. coin collecting Colgate-Palmolive Co. collective bargaining command economy commercial bank commodity exchange Commons, John R(ogers) comparative advantage Conrail consumer credit consumer goods consumer price index (CPI)

consumer protection consumer's surplus consumerism consumption consumption tax Cooke, Jay cooperative corporate finance corporate income tax cost cost of living cost-benefit analysis Cournot, Antoine-Augustin credit credit bureau credit card credit union currency customs union D'Arcy, William Knox

Daimler AG De Beers S.A. Debs, Eugene V(ictor) debt deficit financing deflation Deming, W(illiam) Edwards department store depletion allowance deposit account depreciation depression derivatives devaluation development bank diminishing returns, law of direct-mail marketing discount rate disposable income dividend

division of labour Dodge, William E(arl) domestic service Dow Chemical Co. Dow Jones average Drew, Daniel Drexel, Anthony J(oseph) Duke, James B(uchanan) DuPont Co. Durant, William C(rapo) e-commerce Eastern Air Lines, Inc. Eastman Kodak Co. econometrics Economic Co-operation and Development, Organisation for (OECD) economic development economic forecasting economic growth economic indicator economic planning

economic stabilizer economic system economics Ely, Richard T(heodore) Energia Engle, Robert F. equity ergonomics Erie Railroad Co. estate tax euro Eurodollar European Aeronautic Defence and Space Co. (EADS) exchange control exchange rate Export-Import Bank of the United States (Ex-Im Bank) Exxon Mobil Corporation Faber, Lothar von factoring fair

fair trade law featherbedding Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. (FDIC) Federal Reserve System Fiat SpA Field, Marshall finance finance company Firestone, Harvey S(amuel) fiscal policy Fisher, Irving Fisk, James Flagler, Henry M(orrison) Flick, Friedrich Forbes family Ford Motor Co. foreign exchange foundation free trade free-trade zone

Frick, Henry Clay Friedman, Milton friendly society fringe benefit Frisch, Ragnar (Anton Kittil) Fugger family futures Galbraith, John Kenneth Gannett Co., Inc. Gary, Elbert H(enry) General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) General Dynamics Corp. General Electric Co. (GE) General Mills, Inc. General Motors Corp. (GM) general strike George, Henry German historical school of economics Getty, J(ean) Paul Giannini, A(madeo) P(eter)

gold reserve gold standard Gompers, Samuel Gosplan government budget Grameen Bank Granger, Clive W.J. Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co. (A&P) Great Northern Railway Co. Green, Hetty Green, William Greenspan, Alan Gresham's law Greyhound Lines, Inc. gross domestic product (GDP) GTE Corp. Guggenheim, Daniel Guggenheim, Meyer Guggenheim, Solomon (Robert) Guinness PLC

Gulf & Western Inc. Gulf Oil Corp. GUM Hammer, Armand Harriman, Edward H(enry) Harrods Hayek, Friedrich (August) von health insurance Heckman, James J. Heckscher, Eli Filip hedging Heinz, H(enry) J(ohn) Hewlett-Packard Co. Hicks, Sir John R(ichard) Hill, James J(erome) Hill, Joe Hillman, Sidney Hilton, Conrad (Nicholson) Hoffa, Jimmy holding company

Honda Motor Co. Hopkins, Mark hotel Hunt, H(aroldson) L(afayette) Iacocca, Lee IBM Corp. IG Farben Illinois Central Railroad (IC) Imperial Chemical Industries PLC (ICI) income statement income tax incomes policy indexation industrial and organizational relations inflation inheritance tax input-output analysis insider trading institutional economics Insull, Samuel

insurance Intel Corp. interest International Bank for Economic Cooperation (IBEC) International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union (ILGWU) international payment International Telephone and Telegraph Corp. (ITT) inventory investment investment bank investment credit investment trust Johnson, Robert Wood Jones, Mary Harris JPMorgan Chase & Co. junk bond Kahneman, Daniel Kaiser, Henry J(ohn) Kantorovich, Leonid (Vitalyevich) Keynes, John Maynard, Baron Keynes of Tilton

Kirkland, (Joseph) Lane Kmart Corp. Knight, Frank H(yneman) Kondratyev, Nikolay (Dmitriyevich) Kraft Foods, Inc. Kresge, S(ebastian) S(pering) Kroc, Ray(mond Albert) Kuznets, Simon (Smith) Kydland, Finn E. labour labour economics labour union laissez-faire land land reform Lauder, Estée Lee, Ivy Ledbetter Leontief, Wassily Lever Bros. Levi Strauss & Co.

Lewis, John L(lewellyn) liability insurance life insurance limited liability Lipton, Sir Thomas J(ohnstone) liquidity preference Lloyd's Lockheed Martin Corp. lockout London Stock Exchange Lucas, Robert E., Jr. Lufthansa luxury tax macroeconomics Macy's Malthus, Thomas Robert managerial economics margin marginal productivity theory marginal utility

marginal-cost pricing market market research marketing marketing board Marriott, J(ohn) Willard Marshall, Alfred mathematical programming Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. Mazda Motor Corp. McDonnell Douglas Corp. McFadden, Daniel L. Meany, George Mellon, Andrew W(illiam) mercantile agency mercantilism merchandising merger Merrill, Charles E(dward) Michelin

microeconomics Microsoft Corp. MiG migrant labour Milken, Michael R. minimum wage mint Mises, Ludwig (Edler) von Mitchell, Wesley C(lair) Mitsubishi Corp. Mobil Corp. Modigliani, Franco monetarism monetary policy money money market money order money supply money, quantity theory of monopolistic competition

monopoly monopsony Montgomery Ward & Co. Morgan, J(ohn) P(ierpont) Morgan, J(ohn) P(ierpont), Jr. Morita, Akio most-favoured-nation treatment motel Motorola, Inc. multiplier Mundell, Robert A(lexander) Murray, Philip mutual fund Myrdal, (Karl) Gunnar Nabisco NASDAQ national bank national debt national income accounting Navistar International Corp.

NCR Corp. NEC Corp. Neiman Marcus Nestlé SA New York Central Railroad New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) Niarchos, Stavros (Spyros) Nike Inc. Nissan Motor Co., Ltd. Northern Pacific Railway Co. Novartis AG Ogilvy, David M(ackenzie) oligopoly Olivetti & C. SpA Onassis, Aristotle (Socrates) open market operation opportunity cost over-the-counter market Pan American World Airways, Inc. panic

Paramount Communications Pareto, Vilfredo parity Parkinson, C(yril) Northcote pawnbroking Peabody, George Penney, J(ames) C(ash) Pennsylvania Railroad Co. pension PepsiCo, Inc. Petróleos de Venezuela, SA (PDVSA) Petty, Sir William pharmaceutical industry Philip Morris tobacco companies Philips Electronics NV Phillips curve physiocrat picketing Pillsbury Co. Pinkham, Lydia E(stes)

Polaroid Corp. political economy poll tax Powderly, Terence V(incent) Prescott, Edward C. price price discrimination price index Procter & Gamble Co. Procter, William (Cooper) producer goods production function production management productivity profit profit sharing progressive tax promissory note property tax protectionism

public house public relations (PR) public utility Qantas Airways Limited Quaker Oats Co. quota Railway Express Agency Rank, J(oseph) Arthur, Baron Rank (of Sutton Scotney) Raskob, John Jakob rationing RCA Corp. rebate recession reciprocity regional development program regressive tax relief rent resale price maintenance restaurant

retailing Reuther, Walter (Philip) revenue bond revenue sharing Reynolds American Inc. Ricardo, David risk Robinson, Joan (Violet) Rolls-Royce PLC Rothschild family Royal Dutch Shell PLC Rubinstein, Helena Sage, Russell sales tax Samuelson, Paul (Anthony) saving savings and loan association savings bank Say, J(ean)-B(aptiste) Schiff, Jacob H(enry)

Schumacher, E(rnst) F(riedrich) Schumpeter, Joseph A(lois) Schwab, Charles M(ichael) Seagram Company Ltd. Sears, Roebuck and Company Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) security seigniorage Sen, Amartya service industry shipping Siemens AG silver standard Simon, Herbert (Alexander) Singer NV single tax sinking fund Sloan, Alfred P(ritchard), Jr. Smith & Wesson Smith, Adam

Smith, Vernon L. Société Générale social insurance social security Solow, Robert M(erton) Sony Corp. Spence, A. Michael Squibb, E(dward) R(obinson) standard of living Standard Oil Company and Trust standardization Stanford, (Amasa) Leland Stephens, Uriah Smith Stigler, George J(oseph) Stiglitz, Joseph E. Stillman, James stock stock exchange stock option Straus family

strike subsidy subsistence farming Sukhoy supermarket supply and demand supply-side economics Swift, Gustavus Franklin Swope, Gerard systems analysis systems engineering tariff tax Teamsters Union tenant farming Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) Texas Instruments, Inc. (TI) Thünen, Johann Heinrich von Thomson, J(ohn) Edgar ThyssenKrupp AG

time-and-motion study Tinbergen, Jan Tokyo Stock Exchange toll Total Quality Management (TQM) Toyota Motor Corp. trade agreement trade show Trade, Board of trade, terms of Trades Union Congress (TUC) Trans World Airlines, Inc. (TWA) Transport and General Workers' Union (TGWU) treasury bill trust fund TRW Inc. Tupolev unemployment unemployment insurance Unilever

Union Pacific Corp. union shop United Airlines United Automobile Workers (UAW) United Fruit Co. United Mine Workers of America (UMWA) United States Steel Corp. United Steelworkers (USW) value-added tax (VAT) Veblen, Thorstein (Bunde) vending machine vertical integration Villard, Henry Volkswagen AG (VW) wage-price control Walker, Sarah Breedlove Wall Street Walras, (Marie-Esprit-) Léon Walton, Sam(uel Moore) welfare economics

welfare state Wells Fargo & Co. Western Electric Co. Inc. Western Union Westinghouse Electric Corp. Weyerhaeuser, Frederick Whitney, John Hay wholesaling wildcat bank Woolworth Co. work workers' compensation Xerox Corp. youth hostel Zeiss, Carl