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capitalism
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economic system of a free market for goods and services that controls production and consumption
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command economics
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supply and price of goods and services are regulated by the government
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corrective justice
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equality in exchanges, both parties benefit from the exchange; equilibrium
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distributive justice
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how society distributes common goods to its members (social dimension) everyone participates but are given shares based on merit
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distributivism
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distribution of property will determine the relationship between labor and capital
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economics
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science that deals with the production, distribution and consumption of goods and services, or the material welfare of human kind
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economic rent
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any profit made beyond the value cost of labor
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emotivism
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GE moore's principa ethica morality is based solely on intuition so moral discourse is removed from faith and reasons
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equilibrium
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supply equals demand for every commodity including labor
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equity
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state of being impartial and fair; monetary value of property beyond debts owed to mortgage claims etc.
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homo economics
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fictional model assumes people have unlimited sources; self interest concerned only with what brings them the most pleasure
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incentives
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something that induces action
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invisible hand theory
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through self interest of all parties there will be equity in the free market
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intrasitive value of work
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eternal effect of labor, internal and spiritual growth, bridges dignity of work with that of a human person
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iron law of wages
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mathus: increase in the population of the poor leads to decrease in wages of the poor; all labor can only be paid as substinence amount.
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just price theory
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merchant entitled to ean enough to adequatly support his station in life; wages are related to needs of the worker
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just wage
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not less than enough for upright and thrifty worker to support themselves and families with possibility to save for future and own land.
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keynesian economic theory
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no invisible hand; must be regulated; psychology of market determines need for regulation
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laborem economics (pope john paul II)
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"excercise of labor" dignity of work, human persons work is for man, man is not for work.
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labor theory of value (ricardo)
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priced based on labor and past labor so profit= $-labor-capital
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labor theory of value (smith)
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price determined by labor needed to make product wealth based on labor, labor based on wealth.
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law of markets
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supply creates demand in free market self adjusts to equilibrium.
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marginal utility
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all things are given value by the subject that perceives his need at any moment
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marginal productivity
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rent on a parcel of land that equals the difference of the product of that land and the product of the least productive parcel
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market economics
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ased on division of labor where prices of goods and services are determined in a ree price system set by supply and demand
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natural exchange
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equality in value of production and consumption
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normative economics
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idea policy of "what ought to be"
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positive economics
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cause and effect "What is,what was, what will be" based on probability and statistics.
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rerun novarum (pope leo XIII)
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1891:private property is a human right land is for all people (of new things) limited government regulation, union, just wage.
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socialism
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means of producing and distributing goods owned collectively or by centralized government that plans and controls economy.
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scarcity
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shortness of supply; insufficiency, demand > supply.
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supply and demand theory
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in a competitive market price will function to equalize the quantity demanded: results in equilibrium of price and quantity.
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theology
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study of the nature of god and religious truth. study of religion and its influences on human life. theostlogos= study of god.
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tradition economics
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resources are allocated by inheritance.
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transitive value of work.
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temporal effects of prodution.
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universal destination of goods
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all goods produced in a market make their way back to the members of the market
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utilitarianism
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greatest good for the greatest number of people.
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