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IMPORT QUOTA: A limit on the importation of a particular good brought into one country from another country. An import quota, for example, would stipulate something like only X million pounds of swiss cheese can be imported into the United States from Switzerland each year. Such import quotas are a popular type of nontariff barrier imposed by countries throughout the world, competing with tariffs as the number one trade restriction. The general justification for import quotas is to protect domestic firms and industries from unfair competition by foreign companies. While this can be needed, import quotas are frequently used by oligopoly firms, with significant political influence to limit competition and maintain market control.
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Lesson 4: Production Possibilities | Unit 1: Getting Started
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- The basic production possibilities analysis.
- How the production possibilities analysis can be used to (a) help answer the "What?" question of allocation, (b) understand basic macroeconomic concepts, and (c) work with graphical analysis.
- The four assumptions of production possibilities analysis-two goods, fixed resources, fixed technology, and technical efficiency.
- The limitations of production possibilities analysis-it tells us what is possible, not what is best.
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PRODUCT INNOVATION An innovation of a new product, technology, or idea that generates a beneficial improvement in society and the economy; one that is fundamentally different from existing products, technologies, or ideas. The contrast is with a process innovation, which is an improvement in an existing product, technology, or idea.
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The first paper notes printed in the United States were in denominations of 1 cent, 5 cents, 25 cents, and 50 cents.
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"Intense concentration hour after hour can bring out resources in people they didn't know they had. " -- Edwin Land, inventor, entrepreneur
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R&D
Research and Development
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