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Income can be defined as a flow of factor incomes, such as earnings, dividends and rent.  Alternatively, wealth is a stock of financial and real assets including savin...

Monetarists believe that prices and money wages are flexible and can adjust quickly, meaning that the real wage is at the right level to achieve long run equilibrium in the labour market. All unemployment...

The Gini Coefficient measures the area between the Lorenz curve and the line of absoluate equality in an economy. The bigger the Gini Coefficient, the greater the inequality in a single country. Fiscal po...

The Phillips curve shows the inverse relationship between unemployment a...

Economies of scale and scope

The concept of economies of scale were introduced by Adam Smith as a part of his famous works on division of labour. The main idea behind i...