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ZONING: Legal restrictions on where different activities can locate within a city. Most cities regulate the location of industrial, commercial, and residential activities. The underlying motivation behind zoning is to keep less desirable, but perhaps more profitable, activities from encroaching upon residential areas.

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Lesson 3: Scarcity | Unit 5: THE Problem Page: 15 of 17

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An important aspect of scarcity is the fact that almost nothing is free.
  • That's why economists are fond of saying: 'There ain't no such thing as a free lunch.
We have always faced limited resources and we've always wanted more than we can produce.
  • Scarcity is definitely THE Economic Problem.
  • Everything we do from in economic terms-production, consumption, working, attending college-is directed toward this problem.
  • Scarcity is important to many, perhaps even all, other human activities.
  • Education? Without scarcity, education is not needed.
  • Government? Without scarcity, government is not needed.
  • What about vacations, religion, television?

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AUCTION

A formal market exchange in which prospective buyers make bids to purchase a commodity. An auction is an effective way of exchanging commodities by bringing together buyers and sellers. Auctions are commonly used to exchange financial instruments, agricultural commodities, personal assets, and works of art. Three notable types of auctions are English, Dutch, and sealed-bid.

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Today, you are likely to spend a great deal of time browsing about a thrift store hoping to buy either several magazines on time travel or 500 feet of telephone cable. Be on the lookout for pencil sharpeners with an attitude.
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The portrait on the quarter is a more accurate likeness of George Washington than that on the dollar bill.
"Whenever an individual or a business decides that success has been attained, progress stops. "

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