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Vance D. Coffman

DefinitionVance D. Coffman was the chairman of the board and chief executive officer of Lockheed Martin Corporation. He was elected to the board of...

Venture Capital

DefinitionVenture capital is a type of private equity, a form of financing that is provided by firms or funds to small, early-stage, emerging firms...

Walrasian Market

What is 'Walrasian Market' An economic model of a market process in which orders are collected into batches of buys and sells...

Warm Calling

What is 'Warm Calling' The solicitation of a potential customer with whom a sales representative or business has had prior contact. Warm calling refers to...

Leadership

What is 'Leadership' Leadership is the ability of a company's management to set and achieve challenging goals, take swift and decisive action,...

Wassily Leontief

DefinitionWassily Wassilyevich Leontief, was a Russian-American economist known for his research on input-output analysis and how changes in one economic sector may affect other...
Weak Dollar

Weak Dollar

What is a weak dollar and what are the effects A weak dollar is when the value of the U.S. dollar decreases compared to other...

Garbatrage

What is 'Garbatrage' An increase in price and trading volume in a particular sector of the economy that occurs as a result...
George A. Akerlof

George A. Akerlof

Who is George Akerlof George A. Akerlof is an American economist who won the 2001 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences. He is a University...

Gary S. Becker

DefinitionGary Stanley Becker was an American economist and empiricist. He was a professor of economics and sociology at the University of Chicago. Described as...

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