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1. Abbott, Edith (1876–1957)
Social reformer, economic historian and a pioneer in America of the study of the economic position of women, Edith Abbott was born on 26 September 1876 ...
2. Abramovitz, Moses (1912–2000)
Born in Brooklyn, New York, Abramovitz was educated at Harvard (AB, 1932) and Columbia (Ph.D., 1939). He held faculty appointments at Columbia (1940–2, ...
3. Abramovitz, Moses (born 1912)
Born in Brooklyn, New York, Abramovitz was educated at Harvard (AB, 1932) and Columbia (PhD, 1939). He held faculty appointments at Columbia (1940–42, ...
4. absentee
An absentee may be variously defined (1) as a landed proprietor who resides away from his estate, or (2) from his country; or more generally (3) any ...
5. absolute and exchangeable value
No one can doubt that it would be a great desideratum in political economy to have such a measure of absolute value in order to enable us to know, ...
6. absolute and exchangeable value
The notion of absolute (as distinct from exchangeable or relative) value arises in classical economics from the image of a given magnitude of output being ...
7. absolute rent
Marx’s work on rent was based on his studies of the statistical reports published after the Russian Agrarian Reform of 1861. The importance of the ...
8. absorption approach to the balance of payments
The absorption approach to the balance of payments states that a country’s balance of trade will only improve if the country’s output of goods and ...
9. absorption approach to the balance of payments
The absorption approach to the balance of payments states that a country's balance of trade will only improve if the country's output of goods and services ...
10. absorptive capacity
The idea that the productivity of new investment is a declining function of the rate of investment – the concept labelled ‘absorptive capacity’ – has ...
