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BACKSTOP RESOURCE: A sustainable, renewable natural resource that is used in place of, and as a substitute for, finite, exhaustible natural resources that have been exhausted. A sustainable resource is one in which the amount used today cannot reduce the amount available tomorrow.The best example is solar energy. No matter how much solar energy we use today, the same amount reaches the planet every day in the future. A backstop resource is then a sustainable resource, like solar energy, that society uses after finite resources, like fossil fuels, have been exhausted. In fact, solar energy is often considered THE backstop energy resource. It represents THE "safety net" that's available when fossil fuels are depleted.
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Lesson 10: Gross Domestic Product | Unit 3: Two Views of GDP
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In this unit, you should have learned something about:- GDP can be measured in two different ways, from the demand or expenditure side and from the supply or resource side of the economy.
- From the expenditure side, the four sectors of the economy buy ALL current economic production and when aggregated give us GDP. This is summarized by the formula: GDP = C + I + G + (X-M).
- The calculation of GDP from the resource side of the economy is based on the fact that the revenue received for the sale of GDP is paid to or claimed by a factor of production.
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SUPPLY SPACE The area on or above a supply curve that indicates all possible price-quantity combinations acceptable to sellers. Buyers are willing and able to purchase any price-quantity combination that places them on or above the supply curve, but not above.
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Much of the $15 million used by the United States to finance the Louisiana Purchase from France was borrowed from European banks.
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"A leader, once convinced that a particular course of action is the right one, must . . . be undaunted when the going gets tough." -- President Ronald Reagan
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