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  2. Clothing industry - Wikipedia

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    Clothing factory in Montreal, Quebec, 1941.. Clothing industry or garment industry summarizes the types of trade and industry along the production and value chain of clothing and garments, starting with the textile industry (producers of cotton, wool, fur, and synthetic fibre), embellishment using embroidery, via the fashion industry to apparel retailers up to trade with second-hand clothes ...

  3. Supply and demand - Wikipedia

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    Supply chain as connected supply and demand curves. In microeconomics, supply and demand is an economic model of price determination in a market. It postulates that, holding all else equal, the unit price for a particular good or other traded item in a perfectly competitive market, will vary until it settles at the market-clearing price, where ...

  4. Luxury goods - Wikipedia

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    Luxury goods. Wine and foie gras. In economics, a luxury good (or upmarket good) is a good for which demand increases more than what is proportional as income rises, so that expenditures on the good become a more significant proportion of overall spending.

  5. DOCUMENT RESUME CE 002 608 - ed

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    Economics Instructional Materials Center at Texas Tech University, is the result of combined efforts and ideas of many people, namely: Mrs. Virginia Richards, Lubbock, Texas, and Mrs. Marilyn Johanson, Hi. co, Texas, home economics teachers, who spent a month at the Center helping with the writing of the clothing and textiles instructional ...

  6. Edgeworth box - Wikipedia

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    In economics, an Edgeworth box, sometimes referred to as an Edgeworth-Bowley box, is a graphical representation of a market with just two commodities, X and Y, and two consumers. The dimensions of the box are the total quantities Ω x and Ω y of the two goods. Let the consumers be Octavio and Abby. The top right-hand corner of the box ...

  7. TITLE Clothing and Textiles Curriculum Guide for ... - ed

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    and advanced experiences in clothing and textile subject matter. Topics covered in the unit are.the following: social-psychological aspects of clothing, personal appearance, textiles, economic aspects of clothing, clothing care, careers in clothing and textiles, and clothing construction skill development. Each topic is-complete with

  8. Elasticity (economics) - Wikipedia

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    In economics, elasticity measures the responsiveness of one economic variable to a change in another. [1] If the price elasticity of the demand of something is -2, a 10% increase in price causes the quantity demanded to fall by 20%. Elasticity in economics provides an understanding of changes in the behavior of the buyers and sellers with price ...

  9. Monopolistic competition - Wikipedia

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    Business portal. Money portal. v. t. e. Monopolistic competition is a type of imperfect competition such that there are many producers competing against each other but selling products that are differentiated from one another (e.g., branding, quality) and hence not perfect substitutes. In monopolistic competition, a company takes the prices ...