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ABILITY-TO-PAY PRINCIPLE: A principle of taxation in which taxes are based on the income or resource-ownership ability of people to pay the tax. The income tax collected by our friends at the Internal Revenue Service is one of the most common taxes that seeks to abide by the ability-to-pay principle. In theory, the income tax system is set up such that people with greater incomes pay more taxes. Proportional and progressive taxes follow this ability-to-pay principle, while regressive taxes, such as sales taxes and Social Security taxes, don't.
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Lesson 4: Production Possibilities | Unit 2: The Schedule
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This is a simple, hypothetical production possibilities schedule for the economy.- The economy is using all resources with given technology to efficiently produce two goods, jogging shoes and quartz clock calibrators.
- Bundles A through K represent production alternatives for the economy, such as bundle D with 3 calibrators and 425 pairs of shoes. We have unlimited possibilities using available resources and technology to the fullest extent.
- All shoes, no calibrators, bundle A.
- All calibrators, no shoes, bundle K.
- Some of each good, bundles E or J.
- How about 9 calibrators and 410 pairs of shoes? No! Each bundle is the maximum we can produce.
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MARGINAL REVENUE The change in total revenue resulting from a change in the quantity of output sold. Marginal revenue indicates how much extra revenue a firm receives for selling an extra unit of output. It is found by dividing the change in total revenue by the change in the quantity of output. Marginal revenue is the slope of the total revenue curve and is one of two revenue concepts derived from total revenue. The other is average revenue. To maximize profit, a firm equates marginal revenue and marginal cost.
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Today, you are likely to spend a great deal of time lost in your local discount super center looking to buy either a coffee cup commemorating next Thursday or a replacement remote control for your stereo system. Be on the lookout for jovial bank tellers.
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Ragnar Frisch and Jan Tinbergen were the 1st Nobel Prize winners in Economics in 1969.
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"If you don't have time to do it right, when will you have time to do it over?" -- John Wooden, Basketball coach
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ACIR
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