Hicksian demand function — In microeconomics, a consumer s Hicksian demand correspondence is the demand of a consumer over a bundle of goods that minimizes their expenditure while delivering a fixed level of utility. If the correspondence is actually a function, it is… … Wikipedia
Roy's identity — (named for French economist Rene Roy) is a major result in microeconomics having applications in consumer choice and the theory of the firm. The lemma relates the ordinary demand function to the derivatives of the indirect utility function.… … Wikipedia
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Marginal utility — In economics, the marginal utility of a good or service is the utility gained (or lost) from an increase (or decrease) in the consumption of that good or service. Economists sometimes speak of a law of diminishing marginal utility, meaning that… … Wikipedia
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HISTORICAL SURVEY: THE STATE AND ITS ANTECEDENTS (1880–2006) — Introduction It took the new Jewish nation about 70 years to emerge as the State of Israel. The immediate stimulus that initiated the modern return to Zion was the disappointment, in the last quarter of the 19th century, of the expectation that… … Encyclopedia of Judaism
RUSSIA — RUSSIA, former empire in Eastern Europe; from 1918 the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (R.S.F.S.R.), from 1923 the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (U.S.S.R.); from 1990 the Russian Federation. Until 1772 ORIGINS The penetration… … Encyclopedia of Judaism
С — Сальдо (balance) Cальдо внешней торговли [balance of trade] Сальдо государственного бюджета [balance of state budget] Сальдо торгового баланса см. Сальдо внешней … Экономико-математический словарь
price system — ▪ economics Introduction a means of organizing economic activity. It does this primarily by coordinating the decisions of consumers, producers, and owners of productive resources. Millions of economic agents who have no direct communication … Universalium
Hendrik S. Houthakker — Hendrik Samuel Hank Houthakker (December 31, 1924 ndash; April 15, 2008) was a Dutch Jewish born American economist. [http://media3.washingtonpost.com/wp dyn/content/photo/2008/04/22/PH2008042202874.jpgPicture] Houthakker was born in Amsterdam.… … Wikipedia
HASKALAH — (Heb. הַשְׂכָּלָה), Hebrew term for the Enlightenment movement and ideology which began within Jewish society in the 1770s. An adherent of Haskalah became known as a maskil (pl. maskilim). The movement continued to be influential and spread, with … Encyclopedia of Judaism