Course glossary


During lectures you will learn new words. Using this link you are welcome to add them to our "course glossary", so that other students will be able to see them and learn. Let's make our own useful glossary and help each other to learn new words! By the way, there are already some worlds which should be familiar for you till the end of the course, try to cover them when you mill have free time.



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Joint Stock

A form of business in which the company’s assets are jointly divided among a large number of different individual owners, each of whom owns a specified share of the company’s total wealth. Joint stock companies are governed by a weighted voting system in which investors’ influence depends on the number of shares they own.