409Glossary
which is the aggregate value added by the economic activity within
a country’s borders. ED typically involves improvements in a variety
of indicators such as literacy rates, life expectancy, and poverty. It also
is concerned with hard-to-quantify aspects such as leisure time, envi-
ronmental quality, freedom, social justice, and so forth.
economic distribution (in CESs): Distribution describes exactly who gets
what goods that have been created. Considered are the particular
mix of persons who consume a product by virtue of the incomes
they have earned for the factors of production they have contributed
to in the prior production of the goods currently being consumed.
edge (in graph theory): A line connecting two vertices (aka