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  2. Contingent claim - Wikipedia

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    In financial economics, contingent claim analysis is widely used as a framework both for developing pricing models, and for extending the theory. [6] Thus, from its origins in option pricing and the valuation of corporate liabilities, [ 7 ] it has become a major approach to intertemporal equilibrium under uncertainty .

  3. Economic history - Wikipedia

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    Economic history is the study of history using methodological tools from economics or with a special attention to economic phenomena. Research is conducted using a combination of historical methods, statistical methods and the application of economic theory to historical situations and institutions.

  4. Glossary of economics - Wikipedia

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    Also called resource cost advantage. The ability of a party (whether an individual, firm, or country) to produce a greater quantity of a good, product, or service than competitors using the same amount of resources. absorption The total demand for all final marketed goods and services by all economic agents resident in an economy, regardless of the origin of the goods and services themselves ...

  5. List of charities accused of ties to terrorism - Wikipedia

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    U.S. State Department: Suspicion fell on Guantanamo detainee Jamal Muhammad Alawi Mar'i, in part, because he was a volunteer for Al Wafa; Benevolence International Foundation United States: Federal Bureau of Investigation: Alleged to have helped fund the 1993 World Trade Center bombing. Placed on the Terrorist exclusion list. [3] Bosanska ...

  6. Economic history of the United States - Wikipedia

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    The economic history of the United States spans the colonial era through the 21st century. The initial settlements depended on agriculture and hunting/trapping, later adding international trade, manufacturing, and finally, services, to the point where agriculture represented less than 2% of GDP .

  7. Definitions of economics - Wikipedia

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    James Stuart (1767) authored the first book in English with 'political economy' in its title, explaining it just as: . Economy in general [is] the art of providing for all the wants of a family, so the science of political economy seeks to secure a certain fund of subsistence for all the inhabitants, to obviate every circumstance which may render it precarious; to provide everything necessary ...

  8. United States Court of Claims - Wikipedia

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    The United States Court of Claims: A History; Part II: Origin, Development, Jurisdiction, 1855–1978. Washington, D.C.: Committee on the Bicentennial of Independence and the Constitution of the Judicial Conference of the United States. Journals "The Constitutional Status of the Court of Claims". Harvard Law Review. 68 (3): 527– 535. January ...

  9. United States Court of Federal Claims - Wikipedia

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    The United States Court of Federal Claims (in case citations, Fed. Cl. or C.F.C.) is a United States federal court that hears monetary claims against the U.S. government.It was established by statute in 1982 as the United States Claims Court, and took its current name in 1992.