Glossary 6 (Social Sciences)

Economic activity: of or relating to an economy, economics, or finance
Economic agent:  capable of being produced, operated, etc, for profit; profitable

Goods: possessions and personal property

Services: work performed for remuneration

Production: the act of producing; anything that is produced; product

Distribution: the act of distributing or the state or manner of being distributed

Marketing: an event or occasion, usually held at regular intervals, at which people meet for the purpose of buying and selling merchandise

Consumption: the act of consuming or the state of being consumed, esp by eating, burning, etc

Supply: the act of providing or something that is provided

Demand: to request peremptorily or urgently

Inflation:a progressive increase in the general level of prices brought about by an expansion in demand or the money supply

Profit: excess of revenues over outlays and expenses in a business enterprise over a given period of time, usually a year

Tax:a compulsory financial contribution imposed by a government to raise revenue, levied on the income or property of persons or organizations, on the production costs or sales prices of goods and services, etc

Raw material: material on which a particular manufacturing process is carried out

Employer: a person, business, firm, etc, that employs workers

Employee: a person who is hired to work for another or for a business, firm, etc, in return for payment

Self-employed: earning one's living in one's own business or through freelance work, rather than as the employee of another

Active population: in a state of action; moving, working, or doing something

Inactive population: idle or inert; not active

Disabled: lacking one or more physical powers, such as the ability to walk or to coordinate one's movements, as from the effects of a disease or accident, or through mental impairment

Retired: to give up or to cause (a person) to give up his work, a post, etc, esp on reaching pensionable age

Full-time contracts: for the entire time appropriate to an activity 

Part-time contracts: for less than the entire time appropriate to an activity