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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
economy
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
an enterprise economy (=an economic system in which there are many private businesses)
▪ An enterprise economy can generate wealth and reduce unemployment.
black economy
closed economy
developing economies/markets
▪ the developing economies in Eastern Europe
economies of scale (=ways of saving money that are available to large organizations)
▪ Merging these departments will create economies of scale.
economy class syndrome
economy class
▪ We flew economy class.
economy drive (=effort to reduce spending)
▪ an economy drive
flagging economy
▪ concern for the country’s flagging economy
fragile economy
▪ the country’s fragile economy
fuel economy/efficiency (=how well a vehicle uses fuel, without wasting any)
▪ Greater engine efficiency has led to improved fuel economy.
market economy
mixed economy
new economy
▪ As we move into a new economy, trade unions will have to reinvent themselves to stay relevant.
old economy
▪ Is the Old Economy really dead?
political economy
shadow economy
stakeholder economy
stimulate growth/demand/the economy etc
▪ the President’s plan to stimulate economic growth
the domestic economy (=production of goods and profit from sales inside a country)
▪ Japan’s domestic economy expanded greatly during this period.
weak currency/economy etc
▪ The pound was weak against the dollar.
world trade/economy etc
▪ the impact of the crisis on the world economy
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
black
▪ The growth and health of the black and informal economies is one clear evidence of the disincentive effects of taxation.
▪ New careers in alternative economies, in the black economy and in voluntary work will also be studied.
▪ It leads to the stimulation of a privately run black economy as its crucial lubricant. 5.
▪ Publicly suppressed since the 1920s, these qualities have only survived through the black economy, or through private family oral traditions.
▪ The black economy refers to those unrecorded economic transactions conducted on a cash basis with a view to illegal evasion of tax.
▪ Most women are forced through economic necessity to work in part-time low-paid jobs with quite a large number in the black economy.
▪ The existence of a black economy is, of course, not confined to the United Kingdom.
▪ Boosts the black economy, I suppose.
capitalist
▪ World-system theories emphasize the international character of the capitalist economy.
▪ Marxism was not primarily a scientific method designed to uncover the mechanisms of the capitalist economy.
▪ What are the prospects ahead for the world capitalist economy?
▪ The era of free competition in the capitalist economy is over in all areas and in all respects.
▪ He took as his starting point the capitalist world economy: Contemporary capitalism is world capitalism.
▪ And yet his motives were not unique; in a capitalist economy everybody is out to get money.
▪ The most distinctive institution of capitalist economies is the privately owned corporation.
domestic
▪ The rate has been raised quite high enough to deal with overheating in the domestic economy.
▪ Lloyd said he was concerned that a weakening domestic economy would hurt the railroads in 1996.
▪ And strategically, Mr Healey cut public spending and brought the domestic economy back into balance.
▪ This increase in export earnings will stimulate the domestic economy.
▪ Trade and the free flow of capital are the winds that pull domestic economies along.
▪ So shares linked to the domestic economy look ripe for a bit of selective picking.
false
▪ Using briefing only may be a false economy.
▪ It would be a false economy not to treat divers.
▪ It is false economy not to get the right expert, even though getting the right expert may be more expensive.
▪ From a point of view of commercial work, however, this is bad practice, and false economy.
▪ Buying less than the best is a false economy.
▪ Do not skimp on batteries, it is a false economy.
▪ Diane Chalmers, senior home care manager, says councillors and staff recognised that removing the service would be a false economy.
global
▪ The rest of us have precious little influence over the global economy, though our lives are deeply affected by it.
▪ Education is the life raft he offers workers buffeted by the choppy currents of the global economy.
▪ Clearly those who run the global economy consider success in that area the prerequisite to meeting all other challenges.
▪ The pulp wood and timber industry is an example of how a global economy can cut both ways here.
▪ Once countries have joined the global information economy, their development may be swift.
▪ Second, the real medium-term danger for the global economy will be deflation rather than inflation.
▪ Countries splinter, regional trading blocs grow, the global economy becomes ever more interconnected.
industrial
▪ What a growing part of agriculture all over the world had in common was subjection to the industrial world economy.
▪ And in the United States, it was the Gilded Age that saw the new industrial economy engulf the entire continent.
▪ Births fell and employment and real wages worsened in almost all industrial economies in the early 1930s.
▪ The big risk is large and persistent current-account imbalances INDUSTRIAL economies had an excellent year in 1988.
▪ The space-economy for example is simply the spatial pattern of organization created by the industrial economy; it is not an independent variable.
▪ The implications of this are chilling in an era marked by growing, destabilising imbalances among the world's largest industrial economies.
▪ The industrial economies now produce barely half of total world output.
international
▪ Inflation Up to the mid-1960s, inflation rates had been low in the international economy due to two major factors.
▪ It is instructive at this point to return to the issue of national versus international economies of scale.
▪ In fact a gold standard operated in the international economy prior to 1914 and for a period after the First World War.
▪ The international sector Our economy is deeply enmeshed in a complex web of economic relationships with the rest of the world.
▪ This aided the operation of the fixed exchange rate system and helped to maintain a low inflation rate in the international economy.
▪ For the international economy it hopefully brings about a more efficient allocation of investment or financial resources.
▪ The reader should endeavour to keep up to date with oil market developments because of their impact upon the international economy and financial system.
▪ The various roles of agriculture will have to be seen as integral aspects of the broader rural, national and international economy.
large
▪ In the world's largest economies, that is taken for granted.
▪ Greater savings may indeed lead to larger economies in the future.
▪ Because of their qualitatively larger economies and military resources, Washington and Moscow confront each other as super powers.
local
▪ While the airport is the economic hub of the area, agriculture is still an important part of the local economy.
▪ The glass and crystal sold on the roadside here are the lifeblood of the local economy.
▪ Either way, the local economy gets the dollars.
▪ Louis area that is designed to represent the local economy.
▪ A three year programme of four linked projects will investigate small services sector firms in five types of local economy in Britain.
▪ This has the implication that local economies of scale depend only on output.
▪ Tourism is also of particular importance in some regions and may dominate the local economy.
▪ That might be an indication that the local economy is on a downswing.
mixed
▪ The programme's emphasis on a mixed economy also met little resistance.
▪ The managed mixed economy and a highly developed system of collective social provision were the means for achieving these values.
▪ All the same, the 1988 results give Socialist defenders of the mixed economy new ammunition to fire at would-be privatisers.
▪ What he actually offered was a vigorous defence of the mixed economy with a passing assault on Treasury investment rules.
▪ The privatization programme has been recognized as a major break with the mixed economy consensus.
▪ These programmes were founded on a comprehensive Welfare State system complemented by the demand management of an expanding mixed economy.
▪ But the idea of the mixed economy was hardly less grandiose.
▪ The situation in relation to sponsorship is, I think, quite good: I like a mixed economy.
modern
▪ It was framed on the principles of modern political economy.
▪ All three were pushed into the background, as the more compelling issues of the day-principally the modern political economy were debated.
▪ Then Gilroy shows how these innovations have infiltrated the modern entertainment economy, especially the parts of it concerned with selling blackness.
▪ The degree of mobility in modern economies generally precludes local communities from exerting effective sanctions on anything.
▪ The complexities of a modern developed economy, however, make barter totally impractical for most purposes.
▪ Yet a large public sector appeared to be an almost inevitable part of the modern economy.
▪ It is also a waste of talent and ability which no modern economy can afford.
▪ Angell's central argument was a simple restatement of the interdependence of modern capitalist economies.
national
▪ He has written or edited twelve books, mainly examining relationships between industrial change and regional and national economies.
▪ Mr Stevens attributed the drop in stock price to the GulfWarrelated recession that rocked the national economy that year.
▪ Coal mining remains important to the national economy with both deep mined and opencast output.
▪ But now, with the national economy leaner and personal budgets tighter, an energized public is demanding more accountability.
▪ I have discussed international competition, but of course there are also competitive pressures within the national economy.
▪ The sluggishness in Michigan comes amid signs of a slowing national economy.
▪ Foreign aid has actually made a larger contribution to the national economy than foreign investment in the past five years.
▪ A larger problem is that the flat tax would work havoc in the national economy, and nobody knows what to expect.
political
▪ In ten years, the Thatcher governments transformed the political economy and the public culture.
▪ In sum, the mixed economy is a middle way between the market and the command political economies.
▪ It was framed on the principles of modern political economy.
▪ The absence of competition in the command political economy can result in problems as serious as those from excessive competition.
▪ Hence, a political economy of the urban is scarcely more plausible now than it has ever been in the past.
▪ The economic productivity of command political economies has always been inferior to that of market political economies in comparable countries.
▪ It involves the whole political economy of modern agriculture - and that includes consumers and politicians as well as producers.
▪ Clearly, the state has a dominant, even an overwhelming role in this political economy.
rural
▪ In the long term, seven to 10 years, most effects would be offset as the rural economy adjusted.
▪ The rural economy and domestic industry have developed quite far in Connecticut; the people there are happy.
▪ An interesting feature of the rural economy is the way in which these sectoral employment changes are interlinked.
▪ Another feature of the rural economy is its relationship with urban labour markets.
▪ The stability of the rural economy may, inpart be dependent on the effects of climatic change.
▪ Farmers' activities, which are the backbone of the rural economy, are vital to the survival of whole communities.
▪ The regeneration arena: housing policy as a response to the desire to revitalise declining urban centres and the rural economy.
▪ There is nothing to suggest that the rural economy was anything but generalised, with evidence for specialisation appearing late in the period.
strong
▪ Where the state's control is stronger, the economy is a disaster.
▪ Hotels are busier these days, too, with a stronger economy allowing tourists and businesspeople to travel again.
▪ As she goes into the election, she will be helped by the stronger economy.
▪ Instead of spurring more output and a stronger economy, those dollars would merely bid up prices.
▪ For instance, despite the continued strong national economy, a record 1 million people filed for personal bankruptcy protection last year.
▪ Much of this trend is attributable to a strong economy, but there are other forces at work.
▪ We must have a strong economy.
weak
▪ The debt burden is weighing more and more heavily on the weakest economies.
▪ Rates may continue to fall, but earnings will have a tough time climbing in a weak economy.
▪ It builds in and reinforces their dominance, but it damages the weaker economies.
▪ A weaker economy means inflation is less likely to eat into the value of bonds' interest and principal payments.
▪ And Mr Bush's economic advisers fear that any extra regulation could further damage an already weak economy.
▪ Sales across the country were slower than expected this year as consumers grappled with higher debts and concern about a weaker economy.
▪ Brochier, which restores piping networks, has announced a restructuring plan to deal with a weak economy in its key markets.
■ NOUN
market
▪ In other words the modern defence of the market economy is incomplete at one point.
▪ Third, a market economy can experience major economic cycles.
▪ The rush to a market economy is not enough: all that will bring is the destruction of the old system.
▪ Since firms need to make profits in market economies, these projects have no long-term future.
▪ His country may be taking the first steps to a market economy, but on the streets there are remarkably few cars.
▪ Its emerging democratic polity and guided market economy are also similar.
▪ The market economy provided other employment opportunities for poorer villagers.
▪ Some analysts emphasize rising productivity and rising wages in the market economy that have made work outside the home increasingly profitable.
scale
▪ In the absence of scale economy benefits, horizontal mergers are likely to be socially undesirable.
▪ The characteristics of electronics production and marketing seem to demand companies which can combine scale economies with quick-footed innovation.
▪ Perfect contestability, remember, assumes that any scale economies arise through fixed rather than sunk costs.
▪ Suppose upstream scale economies are extensive.
▪ But Weitzman claims that scale economies can not arise purely through fixed costs; that these costs must be sunk.
▪ The argument that fixed costs are incompatible with scale economies is as follows.
▪ But the relative strength of scale economies and political protectionism varies greatly between different communications fields.
▪ One reason is that there may be efficiency gains from merger, e.g. due to scale economies.
■ VERB
develop
▪ Periodic emergence of such asset price bubbles is routine in even the most developed economies.
▪ The citizens of almost all other major developed economies pay higher taxes than we do.
▪ More supplies must be generated, they say, to feed the developing economy.
▪ But with the collapse of global markets and parallel slowdown in developed nations' economies, the dangers have risen significantly.
▪ He argues that classes develop in market economies in which individuals compete for economic gain.
▪ He was energetic, open-minded, and very keen to develop the economy of his little township by whatever means possible.
grow
▪ Countries splinter, regional trading blocs grow, the global economy becomes ever more interconnected.
▪ Between 1972 and 1982, they were the fastest growing sector of the economy, in terms of employment.
▪ Ending taxes on savings and investment would grow the economy and create new jobs, Kemp said.
manage
▪ It created a wartime atmosphere which could be used to manage the economy and to generate social cohesion.
▪ Sparse, willful and distinct, Ladd manages an enviable economy with his music.
▪ Government was prepared to pursue a managed rather than a controlled economy.
▪ The welfare state and the managed economy did not suddenly emerge full-blown in this period.
▪ The managed mixed economy and a highly developed system of collective social provision were the means for achieving these values.
▪ Plans for economic union Proposals were put forward for managing the closely interdependent economies of the republics.
▪ The balance sheet for managing the economy is, not surprisingly, mixed.
▪ The task of managing even so thriving an economy was difficult.
slow
▪ That is why the Fed's avowed aim has been to slow the economy.
▪ On the downside, all say the slowing national economy will hinder Texas growth.
▪ Second, Fed officials want to avoid a move that could turn out to be unneeded and slow the economy too much.
▪ Bush's tax cuts and the slowing economy mean that Pentagon policy choices will have to be made this year.
▪ Some worry that certain pieces of the technology business could be hurt by a slowing economy and stiff price competition.
▪ The results encouraged investors expecting earnings disappointments because of a slowing economy.
▪ The sluggishness in Michigan comes amid signs of a slowing national economy.
▪ A slowing economy lessens the threat that inflation will pick up speed.
stimulate
▪ Her own prosperity depended to some degree on providing loans to stimulate overseas economies in which her own products could be sold.
▪ The station, through its deejays, came to symbolize and help stimulate the segregated economy of Memphis.
▪ This increase in export earnings will stimulate the domestic economy.
▪ Water in Bio2 was diverted from one locality to another like so much federal spending meant to stimulate a regional economy.
▪ In July, an anti-corruption drive was also launched to stimulate the economy.
▪ Are we willing to sacrifice our kids for the sake of stimulating our economy?
▪ And as Haji's factory shows, creating a market for the goods can stimulate the local economy.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
false economy
▪ Buying less than the best is a false economy.
▪ Diane Chalmers, senior home care manager, says councillors and staff recognised that removing the service would be a false economy.
▪ Do not skimp on batteries, it is a false economy.
▪ From a point of view of commercial work, however, this is bad practice, and false economy.
▪ It is false economy not to get the right expert, even though getting the right expert may be more expensive.
▪ It would be a false economy not to treat divers.
▪ Using briefing only may be a false economy.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ For reasons of economy, the armed forces keep equipment in service for 15 to 20 years.
▪ In a global economy, the only way to maintain a competitive edge is to lead the world in innovation.
▪ Inflation is a major problem in many South American economies.
▪ It is impossible to quantify the exact value of the black economy.
▪ Low interest rates will help the economy.
▪ Poland is trying to move from a centrally planned socialist economy to a free-market capitalist economy.
▪ shadow economies that escape accurate analysis
▪ The government's management of the economy has been severely criticized.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ For that reason, the gradual restraint of inflation and cooling of this overheated economy look impossible.
▪ In the long run the economy will tend to gravitate towards a position of Walrasian equilibrium.
▪ Quite apart from the political fallout, there is the nagging worry that the economy may already be on the brink of recession.
▪ Sometimes it is the economy that goes wrong.
▪ Sparse, willful and distinct, Ladd manages an enviable economy with his music.
▪ The absence of competition in the command political economy can result in problems as serious as those from excessive competition.
▪ The republics would need to create the legal framework and conditions for market economies.
▪ The rush to a market economy is not enough: all that will bring is the destruction of the old system.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
economy

economy \e*con"o*my\ ([-e]*k[o^]n"[-o]*m[y^]), n.; pl. Economies ([-e]*k[o^]n"[-o]*m[i^]z). [F. ['e]conomie, L. oeconomia household management, fr. Gr. o'ikonomi`a, fr. o'ikono`mos one managing a household; o'i^kos house (akin to L. vicus village, E. vicinity) + no`mos usage, law, rule, fr. ne`mein to distribute, manage. See Vicinity, Nomad.]

  1. The management of domestic affairs; the regulation and government of household matters; especially as they concern expense or disbursement; as, a careful economy.

    Himself busy in charge of the household economies.
    --Froude.

  2. Orderly arrangement and management of the internal affairs of a state or of any establishment kept up by production and consumption; esp., such management as directly concerns wealth; as, political economy.

  3. The system of rules and regulations by which anything is managed; orderly system of regulating the distribution and uses of parts, conceived as the result of wise and economical adaptation in the author, whether human or divine; as, the animal or vegetable economy; the economy of a poem; the Jewish economy.

    The position which they [the verb and adjective] hold in the general economy of language.
    --Earle.

    In the Greek poets, as also in Plautus, we shall see the economy . . . of poems better observed than in Terence.
    --B. Jonson.

    The Jews already had a Sabbath, which, as citizens and subjects of that economy, they were obliged to keep.
    --Paley.

  4. Thrifty and frugal housekeeping; management without loss or waste; frugality in expenditure; prudence and disposition to save; as, a housekeeper accustomed to economy but not to parsimony.

    Political economy. See under Political.

    Syn: Economy, Frugality, Parsimony. Economy avoids all waste and extravagance, and applies money to the best advantage; frugality cuts off indulgences, and proceeds on a system of saving. The latter conveys the idea of not using or spending superfluously, and is opposed to lavishness or profusion. Frugality is usually applied to matters of consumption, and commonly points to simplicity of manners; parsimony is frugality carried to an extreme, involving meanness of spirit, and a sordid mode of living. Economy is a virtue, and parsimony a vice.

    I have no other notion of economy than that it is the parent to liberty and ease.
    --Swift.

    The father was more given to frugality, and the son to riotousness [luxuriousness].
    --Golding. [1913 Webster] ||

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
economy

1530s, "household management," from Latin oeconomia (source of French économie, Spanish economia, German Ökonomie, etc.), from Greek oikonomia "household management, thrift," from oikonomos "manager, steward," from oikos "house, abode, dwelling" (cognate with Latin vicus "district," vicinus "near;" Old English wic "dwelling, village;" see villa) + nomos "managing," from nemein "manage" (see numismatic). Meaning "frugality, judicious use of resources" is from 1660s. The sense of "wealth and resources of a country" (short for political economy) is from 1650s.

economy

1821 as a term in advertising, at first meant simply "cheaper," then "bigger and thus cheaper per unit or amount" (1950). See economy (n.).

Wiktionary
economy

a. cheap to run; using minimal resources; representing good value for money. n. 1 effective management of the resources of a community or system. 2 Collective focus of the study of money, currency and trade, and the efficient use of resources. 3 frugal use of resources. 4 The system of production and distribution and consumption. The overall measure of a currency system; as the national economy.

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WordNet
economy

  1. n. the system of production and distribution and consumption [syn: economic system]

  2. the efficient use of resources; "economy of effort"

  3. frugality in the expenditure of money or resources; "the Scots are famous for their economy" [syn: thriftiness]

  4. an act of economizing; reduction in cost; "it was a small economy to walk to work every day"; "there was a saving of 50 cents" [syn: saving]

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Gazetteer
Economy, IN -- U.S. town in Indiana
Population (2000): 200
Housing Units (2000): 79
Land area (2000): 0.096963 sq. miles (0.251134 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.096963 sq. miles (0.251134 sq. km)
FIPS code: 20152
Located within: Indiana (IN), FIPS 18
Location: 39.976293 N, 85.085945 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 47339
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
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Economy, IN
Economy
Economy, PA -- U.S. borough in Pennsylvania
Population (2000): 9363
Housing Units (2000): 3629
Land area (2000): 17.698873 sq. miles (45.839868 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.069934 sq. miles (0.181128 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 17.768807 sq. miles (46.020996 sq. km)
FIPS code: 22264
Located within: Pennsylvania (PA), FIPS 42
Location: 40.638466 N, 80.184891 W
ZIP Codes (1990):
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Economy
Wikipedia
Economy (basketball)

Economy is a basketball statistical formula that was created in order to determine the ball possession efficiency of ball handlers, mainly primary ball handlers and point guards. It is considered a basic statistic of the Greek League.

Economy (album)

Economy is the second studio album by Christian singer and songwriter John Mark McMillan, and it released on November 1, 2011 by Integrity Music. The producers on the album were McMillan, Jeremy Griffith and Joel Khouri.

Economy (disambiguation)

Economy is the human activity that consists in producing, exchanging, distributing, and consuming goods and services, studied by economics and realised inside an economic system. It is responsible for human activities and institutions for satisfying the human needs of the society. Today, the economy presents one of the ten function systems of modern societies.

Economy may also refer to:

  • The quality of being efficient or frugal in using resources; see frugality
  • World economy, the economy of the world
  • Virtual economy, an economy simulated in a virtual world
  • Economy (religion), a bishop's discretionary power to relax rules
  • Economy (Thoreau), a chapter from Walden, by Henry David Thoreau
  • Economy class, a class of seating in airline travel
  • " Jazz ist anders (Economy)", "Economy"-version of Die Ärzte's album "Jazz ist anders"
  • The economy of Salvation is that part of divine revelation that deals with God’s creation and management of the world, particularly His plan for salvation accomplished through the Church
Places:
  • Economy, Indiana, United States
  • Economy, Pennsylvania, United States
  • Old Economy Village, Pennsylvania, United States
  • Economy, Nova Scotia, an unincorporated community in Maritime Canada
Economy (religion)

In the Orthodox Church, in Eastern and Latin Catholic churches, and in the teaching of the Church Fathers which undergirds the theology of those communions, economy or oeconomy (, oikonomia) has several meanings. The basic meaning of the word is "handling" or "disposition" or "management" or more literally "housekeeping" of a thing, usually assuming or implying good or prudent handling (as opposed to poor handling) of the matter at hand. In short, economia is discretionary deviation from the letter of the law in order to adhere to the spirit of the law and charity. This is in contrast to legalism, or akribia —strict adherence to the letter of the law of the church.

As such, the word "economy", and the concept attaching to it, are utilized especially with regard to two types of "handling": (a) divine economy, that is, God's "handling" or "management" of the fallen state of the world and of mankind—the arrangements he made in order to bring about man's salvation after the Fall; and (b) what might be termed pastoral economy (or) ecclesiastical economy, that is, the Church's "handling" or "management" of various pastoral and disciplinary questions, problems, and issues that have arisen through the centuries of Church history.

Economy

An economy (From Greek οίκος – "household" and νέμoμαι – "manage") is an area of the production, distribution, or trade, and consumption of goods and services by different agents in a given geographical location. Understood in its broadest sense, 'The economic is defined as a social domain that emphasizes the practices, discourses, and material expressions associated with the production, use and management of resources'. Economic agents can be individuals, businesses, organizations, or governments. Economic transactions occur when two parties agree to the value or price of the transacted good or service, commonly expressed in a certain currency, but monetary transactions are only a small part of the economic domain.

Economic activity is spurred by production which uses natural resources, labor, and capital. It has changed over time due to technology (automation, accelerator of process, reduction of cost functions), innovation (new products, services, processes, new markets, expands markets, diversification of markets, niche markets, increases revenue functions) such as that which produces intellectual property and changes in industrial relations (for example, child labor being replaced in some parts of the world with universal access to education).

A given economy is the result of a set of processes that involves its culture, values, education, technological evolution, history, social organization, political structure and legal systems, as well as its geography, natural resource endowment, and ecology, as main factors. These factors give context, content, and set the conditions and parameters in which an economy functions. In other words, the economic domain is a social domain of human practices and transactions. It does not stand alone.

A market-based economy is where goods and services are produced and exchanged according to demand and supply between participants (economic agents) by barter or a medium of exchange with a credit or debit value accepted within the network, such as a unit of currency.

A command-based economy is where political agents directly control what is produced and how it is sold and distributed.

A green economy is low-carbon, resource efficient, and socially inclusive. In a green economy, growth in income and employment are driven by public and private investments that reduce carbon emissions and pollution, enhance energy and resource efficiency, and prevent the loss of biodiversity and ecosystem services.

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Usage examples of "economy".

In Hegel, the synthesis of the theory of modern sovereignty and the theory of value produced by capitalist political economy is finally realized, just as in his work there is a perfect realization of the consciousness of the union of the absolutist and republican aspects-that is, the Hobbesian and Rousseauian aspects-of the theory of modern sovereignty.

These were the silent, empty remains of the accelerator ring that had once circled the planet, that had created the antimatter that fueled its economy, that had berthed its ships, warehoused its goods, and supported the lives of eighty million people.

This feeling alone would make your most kind and wise admonitions, on the subject of the economy of intellectual force, valuable to me.

And you wonder that the little nihilist groups and labor organizations and associations of agnostics, as you call them, meeting to study political economy and philosophy, say that the existing state of things has got to be overturned violently, if those who have the power and the money continue indifferent.

They say aquaculture produces cheaper food, provides employment and pours money into the economy.

Second, they claim that the dominant economies themselves had originally developed their fully articulated and independent structures in relative isolation, with only limited interaction with other economies and global networks.

Murray Undeceived and Avenged Tontine had what is called tact and common sense, and thinking these qualities were required in our economy she behaved with great delicacy, not going to bed before receiving my letters, and never coming into my room except in a proper dress, and all this pleased me.

Their serious and sequestered life, averse to the gay luxury of the age, inured them to chastity, temperance, economy, and all the sober and domestic virtues.

After the procurator had gone I began to enjoy life at Trieste, but in strict moderation and with due regard for economy, for I had only fifteen sequins a month.

The status quo in Bermuda was pleasant enough: overemployment, full integration, bicameral legislature, a vigorous tourist economy.

United States and elsewhere, the binational genesis of this state-led, keiretsu-dominated economy was all but forgotten.

For economy I dined in a restaurant in Golden City, and at three remounted my trusty Birdie, intending to arrive here that night.

Maryland Maryland is a fast-growing state boasting a dynamic economy based on giving speeding tickets to people attempting to drive through.

Let the fliers watch fuel economy and not botch their navigation, and there would be no splashes.

Important Memo from The Desk of James Boulin Chartwell, III, to the effect that James Boulin Chartwell, III, suggested that George Jordan Graylin, Junior, stop riding a donkey and get on with discovering Who was Betraying The Great American Economy before All Was Lost.