There are 178 entries in the GLOSS*arama starting with the letter P.

Entries 1 through 35:

• p-e ratio
• packaging
• paper currency
• paper economy
• par value
• paradox of thrift
• Pareto efficiency
• Pareto improvement
• part-time workers
• partnership
• patent
• paternalism
• payment flow
• payroll tax
• peak
• per unit tax
• perception
• perfect competition
• perfect competition and demand
• perfect competition and efficiency
• perfect competition and short-run supply curve
• perfect competition characteristics
• perfect competition, factor market analysis
• perfect competition, long-run adjustment
• perfect competition, long-run equilibrium conditions
• perfect competition, long-run production analysis
• perfect competition, loss minimization
• perfect competition, marginal analysis
• perfect competition, profit analysis
• perfect competition, profit maximization
• perfect competition, realism
• perfect competition, revenue division
• perfect competition, short-run production analysis
• perfect competition, shutdown
• perfect competition, total analysis

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A resource with an available quantity less than its desired use. Economic, or scarce, resources are also called factors of production and generally classified as either labor, capital, land, or entrepreneurship. Economic resources are the workers, equipment, raw materials, and organizers that are used to produce economic goods. Like the more general society-wide condition of scarcity, a given resource falls into the economic or scarce category because of it has a limited availability relative to (potentially unlimited) productive uses.

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Today, you are likely to spend a great deal of time wandering around the shopping mall seeking to buy either storage boxes for your computer software CDs or a set of tires. Be on the lookout for small children selling products door-to-door.
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