|
|
TAX EVASION: An illegal reduction in taxes. Tax evasion occurs when someone fails to pay their legal taxes. This is the sort of thing that leads to a prison sentence. Ethical considerations aside, it is also the sort of thing that's likely to happen if tax rates are high or unpopular.
Visit the GLOSS*arama
|
|
|
|
                          
TECHNOLOGY: The sum total of knowledge and information that society has acquired concerning the use of resources to produce goods and services. This technology often takes the form of scientific knowledge (the best combination of chemicals to make a long-lasting floor wax), but can also be plain old common sense (irrigate during a drought, not during a flood). Whether scientific or not, technology affects the technical efficiency with which resources are combined in production. An improvement in technology is thus an increase in the technical efficiency of production--more output with given inputs or fewer inputs for a given output. Technology is often embodied in capital goods. Bigger, better, faster, and less expensive computers are the result of advances in silicon chip technology. However, technology is also embodied in labor as human capital. See also | information | resources | capital | science | technical efficiency | output | input | human capital | economic growth | living standard | scarcity | investment | education |
Recommended Citation:TECHNOLOGY, AmosWEB GLOSS*arama, http://www.AmosWEB.com, AmosWEB LLC, 2000-2021. [Accessed: September 21, 2021].
AmosWEB Encyclonomic WEB*pedia:Additional information on this term can be found at: WEB*pedia: technology
Search Again?
Back to the GLOSS*arama
|
|
|
LEADING ECONOMIC INDICATORS Ten economic statistics that tend to move up or down a few months BEFORE business-cycle expansions and contractions. Most importantly, these measures indicate peak and trough turning points about three to twelve months before they occur. Leading economic indicators are one of three groups of economic measures used to track business-cycle activity. The other two are coincident economic indicators and lagging economic indicators.
Complete Entry | Visit the WEB*pedia |
|
|
BLUE PLACIDOLA
[What's This?]
Today, you are likely to spend a great deal of time calling an endless list of 800 numbers looking to buy either a rim for your spare tire or decorative celebrity figurines. Be on the lookout for fairy dust that tastes like salt.
Your Complete Scope
This isn't me! What am I?
|
|
|
There were no banks in colonial America before the U.S. Revolutionary War. Anyone seeking a loan did so from another individual.
|
|
|
"Man is born to live, not to prepare for life. " -- Boris Pasternak, writer
|
|
T-BILL
Treasury Bill
|
|
|
Tell us what you think about AmosWEB. Like what you see? Have suggestions for improvements? Let us know. Click the User Feedback link.
User Feedback
|
|
