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OIKONOMOS: This rather strange word is a greek term meaning "household manager" or "household steward" that gave rise to the modern term economy and the whole range of related terms, including economic, economics, economist, and economize. Ironically there are those who use economics less with the goal of providing "stewardship" of the economy and more focused on the goal of extracting maximum personal gain.
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Lesson 2: Economic Science | Unit 1: The Method
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- The basics of the scientific method used to identify and explain the world.
- An overview of the four components of the scientific method--theory, principles, hypotheses, and data.
- How hypotheses are derived from a theory and how they are tested against real world data.
- How the hypothesis verification process is used to identify scientific principles that enable a new, improved theory.
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INTERCEPT, SAVING LINE The intercept of the saving line indicates autonomous saving, saving that does not depend on the level of income or production. This can be thought of as the baseline level of saving that would be undertaken if income falls to zero. Autonomous saving is affected by the consumption expenditures determinants, which cause a change in the intercept and a shift of the saving line. The value of the intercept of the saving line is the negative of the value of the intercept of the consumption line.
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General Electric is the only stock from the original 1896 Dow Jones Industrial Average remaining in the current index.
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"If anything terrifies me, I must try to conquer it. " -- Francis Charles Chichester, yachtsman, aviator
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MU Marginal Utility
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