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RESERVATION PRICE: The lowest price at which a supplier is willing to supply any amount of a good. This is usually based on the minimum cost of production. For labor, it's the lowest wage that makes it worthwhile to get up in the morning, miss your favorite daytime television shows, and go to work.
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Why Study: Taxes
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- Governments levy taxes for two reasons:
- Revenue Generation: To collect the revenue needed to operate and to provide public goods.
- Resource Allocation: To change the allocation of resources and to alter the production and consumption of specific goods.
- Elasticity determines how effectively a tax achieves it's desired goal.
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SECOND ESTATE Another term for the business sector. This is one of four divisions of society based on economic function. The other three are government as the first estate, consumers as the third estate, and journalists as the fourth estate.
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Today, you are likely to spend a great deal of time at the confiscated property police auction trying to buy either yellow cotton balls or a set of steel-belted radial snow tires. Be on the lookout for attractive cable television service repair people. Your Complete Scope
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The New York Stock Exchange was established by a group of investors in New York City in 1817 under a buttonwood tree at the end of a little road named Wall Street.
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"If anything terrifies me, I must try to conquer it. " -- Francis Charles Chichester, yachtsman, aviator
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AMW Average Monthly Wage
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