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ADVERSE SELECTION: When a negotiation between two people with different amounts of information, that is, asymmetric information, restricts the quality of the good traded. This typically happens because the person with more information is able to negotiate a favorable exchange. This is frequently referred to as the "market for lemons."

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Lesson 10: Gross Domestic Product | Unit 2: Looking Behind GDP Page: 6 of 25

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Measuring GDP in the U.S. economy uses data involving $8 trillion of production, 270 million consumers, hundreds of thousands of businesses, and a huge number of market transactions.
  • The circle on the left represents all current economic production in the economy. This is what GDP seeks to measure.
  • But GDP can not measure this directly. Information for measuring GDP comes from market transactions.
  • The circle on the right represents all market transactions.
  • Much of the economic production circle overlaps the market transaction circle. But each circle has a slice not contained in the other.

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SPECIALIZATION

The condition in which resources are primarily devoted to specific production tasks. This is one of THE most important and most fundamental notions in the study of economics. Civilized human beings have long recognized that limited resources can be more effectively used in the production of the goods and services that satisfy unlimited wants and needs if those resources specialize.

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Today, you are likely to spend a great deal of time at a garage sale trying to buy either a birthday gift for your mother or a weathervane with a horse on top. Be on the lookout for pencil sharpeners with an attitude.
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One of the largest markets for gold in the United States is the manufacturing of class rings.
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