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WELFARE ECONOMICS: A branch of economics that studies efficiency and the overall well-being of society based on alternative allocations of scarce resources. Welfare economics extends the microeconomic analysis of indifference curves to society as a whole. It is concerned with broad efficiency questions and criteria (Pareto efficiency and Kaldor-Hicks efficiency) as well as more specific efficiency issues (market failures, externalities, public goods).

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Lesson 7: Market | Unit 1: The Exchange Page: 2 of 22

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Equilibrium is the balance of opposing forces that remains unchanged until another force intervenes.

For example:

If two people are pushing in opposite ways on a swinging door with equal strength, then neither will be able to go through. Each pusher represents an opposing force.

For a market, the opposing forces are:

  • Demand. Buyers want to pay a lower price.
  • Supply. Sellers want to receive a higher price.
Market equilibrium is indicated by equilibrium quantity and equilibrium price.
  • Equilibrium quantity is the quantity of a good traded among buyers and sellers when a market is in equilibrium.
  • Equilibrium price is the price agreed to by buyers and sellers when a market is in equilibrium.
  • Buyers and sellers will continue to trade the equilibrium quantity at the equilibrium price indefinitely.
  • But, the equilibrium quantity and price can be disrupted by ceteris paribus determinants of demand and supply. Analyzing these disruptions help us understand economic events.

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PERSONAL TAX AND NONTAX PAYMENTS

The official item in the National Income and Product Accounts maintained by the Bureau of Economics Analysis measuring the personal income taxes paid to the government sector on personal income received by the household sector. Personal tax and nontax payments are subtracted from personal income (PI) to calculate disposable income (DI). Personal tax and nontax payments are about 15 percent of personal income and about 13 percent of gross domestic product.

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