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Concept entities name a theory, model, law or analytical tool this atlas documents on its own terms, distinct from the economist who proposed it and from the school of thought that champions it, each its own entity linked back by relationship. This category is grouped by the Journal of Economic Literature (JEL) top-level classification, the discipline's own standard scheme, into twenty subject bands from General Economics through Other Special Topics; several bands carry no live member yet and are deliberately left unminted as subcategories, scaffolding rather than a finished tree.

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Adverse Selection

D - Microeconomics

Balance of Payments

F - International Economics

Business Cycle

E - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics

Central Bank Independence

E - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics

Coase Theorem

K - Law and Economics

Comparative Advantage

F - International Economics

Consumer Surplus

D - Microeconomics

Creative Destruction

O - Economic Development, Innovation, and Growth

Crowding Out (Economics)

E - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics

Deadweight Loss

D - Microeconomics

Diminishing Marginal Returns

D - Microeconomics

Double-Entry Bookkeeping

M - Business Administration and Business Economics

Economies of Scale

D - Microeconomics

Elasticity of Demand

D - Microeconomics

Externalities

D - Microeconomics

Fiat Currency

E - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics

Fiscal Multiplier

E - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics

Giffen Good

D - Microeconomics

Gresham's Law

E - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics

Gross Domestic Product

E - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics

Human Capital

J - Labor and Demographic Economics

Inflation

E - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics

Invisible Hand

B - History of Economic Thought, Methodology, and Heterodox Approaches

Laffer Curve

H - Public Economics

Lean Production

M - Business Administration and Business Economics

Liquidity Trap

E - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics

Loss Aversion

D - Microeconomics

Marginal Utility

D - Microeconomics

Markgenossenschaft

N - Economic History

Minimum Wage

J - Labor and Demographic Economics

Moral Hazard

D - Microeconomics

Nash Equilibrium

C - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods

Okun's Law

E - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics

Opportunity Cost

D - Microeconomics

Pareto Efficiency

D - Microeconomics

Performance-Based Regulation

L - Industrial Organization

Phillips Curve

E - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics

Poverty Trap

O - Economic Development, Innovation, and Growth

Principal-Agent Problem

D - Microeconomics

Property Rights

K - Law and Economics

Public Good

H - Public Economics

Purchasing Power Parity

F - International Economics

Quantitative Easing

E - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics

Ricardian Equivalence

E - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics

Say's Law

B - History of Economic Thought, Methodology, and Heterodox Approaches

Scientific Management

M - Business Administration and Business Economics

Sunk Cost

D - Microeconomics

Supply and Demand

D - Microeconomics

The Commons

Q - Agricultural, Natural Resource, Environmental, and Ecological Economics

Time Value of Money

G - Financial Economics

Tragedy of the Commons

Q - Agricultural, Natural Resource, Environmental, and Ecological Economics

Transaction Costs

D - Microeconomics

Unicorn (Finance)

G - Financial Economics

Veblen Good

D - Microeconomics
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The curve suggests that starting from zero, an increase in tax rates will increase the government's tax revenue
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