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ACTIVIST POLICY: Government policies that involve explicit actions designed to achieve specific goals. A common type of activist policy is that designed to stabilize business cycles, reduce unemployment, and lower inflation, through government spending and taxes (fiscal policy) or the money supply (monetary policy). Activist policies are also term discretionary policies because they involve discretionary decisions by government. A contrast to activist policy is automatic stabilizers that help stabilize business cycles without explicit government actions.
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Lesson 3: Scarcity | Unit 4: College Cost
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An example of the opportunity cost of attending college.- Tuition, fees, textbooks, sliderule, etc. ($932.71 per semester) is an explicit opportunity cost.
- The opportunity cost is all other things that you could have bought with this money-fuzzy dice, hot fudge sundaes, a used Ford Pinto, music CDs.
- The tuition cost of your college degree is the added up over all semesters ($7,461,68).
However, the TOTAL COST actually goes well beyond this explicit $7,461,68 payment, since there are other costs that don't involve a money payment:- By attending school you have foregone alternative activities like working.
- Unearned income, $15,000 per year, $60,000 for four years, is an extremely important implicit opportunity cost of a college education.
- Implicit opportunity costs need not have a dollar value attached.
- The foregone satisfaction from activities like watching television or sleeping, are also implicit opportunity costs.
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GOOD TYPES The economy produces four distinct types of goods based on two key characteristics -- consumption rivalry and nonpayer excludability. Consumption rivalry arises if consumption of a good by one person prevents another from also consuming. Nonpayer excludability means potential consumers who do not pay for a good can be excluded from consuming. Private goods are rival in consumption and easily subject to the exclusion of nonpayers. Public goods are nonrival in consumption and the exclusion of nonpayers is virtually impossible. Near-public goods are nonrival in consumption and easily subject to exclusion. Common-property goods are rival in consumption and not easily subject to exclusion. Private goods can be efficiently exchanged through markets. Public, near-public and common-property goods cannot, but require some degree of government involvement for efficiency.
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BLACK DISMALAPOD
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Today, you are likely to spend a great deal of time watching the shopping channel looking to buy either a computer that can play video games and burn DVDs or a black duffle bag with velcro closures. Be on the lookout for gnomes hiding in cypress trees.
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A communal society, a prime component of Karl Marx's communist philosophy, was advocated by the Greek philosophy Plato.
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"It takes generosity to discover the whole through others. If you realize you are only a violin, you can open yourself up to the world by playing your role in the concert. " -- Jacques Yves Cousteau, marine explorer
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DIDMCA
Depository Institutions Deregulation and Monetary Control Act
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