Showing posts with label economic. Show all posts
Showing posts with label economic. Show all posts

Thursday, May 13, 2010

Who Knew?



Who knew that economics terms could be so filthy? Maybe economists should be sent to a camp for reprogramming. While they're there, they might as well do some bootcamp stuff like rope climbing and log crossing. Crud, I just thought about John Candy's feet slipping on each side of that log in Stripes, now I have a stomach ache. Okay, to the list:


A Posteriori
Asian Development Bank
Attractive Force
Contractionary Gap
Double Coincidence of Wants

Early Withdrawal
Entry Barriers
Firm Assets
Free-Rider Problem
GDP Deflator

Hard Peg
Homogeneous Good
Horizontal Merger
Injection-Leakage Model
Invisible Hand

Jawboning
Kinked-Demand Curve
Limited Partnership
Logrolling
Moral Suasion

Oligopolistic Behavior
Pump and Dump
Price Rigidity
Self-Correction
Tying Contract