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Market
* All markets work based on the principle of supply and demand.
* Many markets have seasonal price patterns that occur over and over each year
  - use limits which stop prices fluctuating too much as a way to control price volatility
* Some markets accept plastics in granulated form
  - contribute to agricultural improvement
  - depend on geographies
  - sell powdered borax as a laundry additive
* activate every place in which they occur.
* affect income distribution.
* allocate goods and services.
* also embody, often in a desirable way, the values held by our society.
* are a key indicator of economic health
  - major potential source of infection from food and water-borne diseases
  - natural outgrowth of human civilization
  - source of beef, pork or goat for the local population
  - always systems of economic transaction as well as of symbolic exchange
* are among the most complex systems ever studied
  - oldest social institutions known to man
* are an image of the world
  - integral part of the trade structure for wildlife medicinals in most countries
  - as much about people as they are about food
  - capable of target audiences
* are central institutions of a modern society
  - to the workings of our economies
  - chaotic systems, and chaotic systems always have more than one solution
  - classes
  - conversations - literally people talking
  - conversations, whether they consist of one person or ten million people
  - divided according to diseases
  - dynamic systems, that are constantly effected by the actions of the market players
  - environments
  - full of many kinds of foodstuffs
  - industries
* are located in cities
  - rural areas
  - supermarkets
  - towns
  - villages
  - locations
  - men's business, from very young boys to very old codgers
  - neither the first nor the last word in human development
  - places where perceptions of value are matched to create trade
  - powerful tools which play an important role in protecting consumers and producers
  - purely instrumental means for the efficient allocation of resources
  - sets of products purchased by a common set of online consumers
* are the arenas in which the unknown, risk, is converted to certainty, return
  - most effective means of meeting consumers' needs and maintaining a robust economy
  - primary means of economic interaction among the earth's inhabitants
  - result of interaction between supply and demand
* are used for exchangings
  - shopping
  - trading
* are usually a good way to organize economic activity
  - good for the organisation of economic life
* based transactions are short term in nature between highly autonomous agents.
* become forces.
* bring together people and products from around the world.
* caps change daily, as long as there change in stock price.
* carry a greater risk because the mixing of animals and people is less easily controlled.
* change over time
  - rapidly today and companies regularly change hands or exchange corporate cultures
* change, inflation rises, and recessions are a fact of life.
* consist of maid services
  - people with money to spend
* coordinate interactions, as does customary law.
* deliver growth.
* determine environmental outcomes
* develop products to satisfy people's tastes or needs according to their ability to pay.
* do react to the waves in the earth's electric field, as manipulated by the planets.
* drive investments.
* exist in all cultures
  - when buyers and sellers interact
* feature goods.
* find prices or express values through people expressing their desires or appetites.
* flourish efficiently because information flows freely.
* focus on areas.
* go up and down in cycles which have a wave-like motion.
* have characteristics
  - levels
  - niches
  - protocols
* include sales.
* includes business activities.
* indices Indicators for stock, bond, futures, and options markets.
* interrelationships, exchange, production, reproduction, as social processes.
* is the mother of all business
  - oldest and the largest financial market in the world
* last for years.
* move in cycles.
* offer growth potential.
* offer high growth potential
  - job opportunity
  - types
* orders A market order is an instruction to buy or sell at the best possible price.
* promote growth
  - hair growth
* provide a natural mechanism for scheduling tasks and allocating resources
  - conditions
  - coverage
  - economic opportunity
* provide excellent market opportunity
  - ideal conditions
* reflect cost
  - true cost
* represent alternatives.
* result in events.
* see products.
* shape the distribution of power, policy choices and the institutions of governance.
* show growth.
* tend to operate in spite of differences in ideology
  - toward balance between supply and demand and imbalance between supply and demand
* use the price to ration scarce commodities.
* vanish, currencies fail, governments fall, and unemployment and the misery of the poor grow.
* vary in terms of prices, growth rates, competition, and other factors.
* work because entrepreneurs spot opportunities to get rich
  - by receiving, processing and refining information in a never-ending cycle
  - on information
+ Economics, General economic rules
  * Markets are usually good for the organisation of economic life. In the free market, goods will be shared by people and companies making small decisions.
+ Soba: Noodles
  * In Japan, soba noodles are served in a variety of situations. They are a popular inexpensive fast food at train stations throughout Japan, they are served by exclusive and expensive specialty restaurants, and they are also made at home. Markets sell dried noodles and 'men-tsuyu', or instant noodle broth, to make home preparation easy.