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GRESHAM'S LAW: A principle stating that bad money drives good money out of circulation. For this law to apply an economy clearly needs two types of money, one considered good and the other considered bad. Good and bad money in this context has nothing to do with the propensity to torture small animals or attempts at world domination. Good and bad are based on the official value in exchange versus value in use. Gold and silver, which were both used as money in the U.S. Economy in the 1800s, provides an illustration. Silver took on the role of "bad money" because it was relatively less value in use than gold. As such, people used silver as everyday money and stockpiled, or hoarded, gold. The silver bad money drove the gold good money out of circulation.
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Lesson 10: Utility and Demand | Unit 5: Beyond Demand
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In this unit, you should have learned about:- How the principles of consumer demand are important to many activities beyond standard economic activity.
- How elasticity, which is the responsiveness of quantity demanded to demand price, is related to utility.
- Why production and supply decisions are comparable to consumption and demand decisions.
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KEYNESIAN AGGREGATE SUPPLY CURVE An aggregate supply curve--a graphical representation of the relation between real production and the price level--that reflects the basic principles of Keynesian economics. The Keynesian aggregate supply curve actually comes in two versions. The basic version is reverse-L shaped, with a horizontal segment connected to a vertical segment at a sharp corner. The modified version is also reverse-L shaped, but the vertical and horizontal segments have positive slopes and connecting corner is rounded. An alternative is the classical aggregate supply curve.
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In the late 1800s and early 1900s, almost 2 million children were employed as factory workers.
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"The road to success is always under construction. " -- Lily Tomlin, Actress
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WLLN Weak Law of Large Numbers
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