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GENERAL AGREEMENT ON TARIFFS AND TRADE: A treaty, signed in 1947 by 23 countries including the United States, that was designed to reduce trade barriers. It now carries the signatures of about 100 countries and over the years has been pretty darn effective in reducing tariffs, eliminating some import quotas, and promoting commerce.
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Lesson 5: Market Demand | Unit 5: Scarcity
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Demand is closely related to the scarcity problem, especially unlimited wants and needs.- Scarcity arises because society has limited resources but unlimited wants and needs.
- The connection between demand and scarcity is:
- The demand side of the markets comes directly from the unlimited wants and needs side of the scarcity problem, and
- The supply side of the market comes from the limited resources side of the scarcity problem.
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NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH A private, nonprofit, nonpartisan organization established in 1920 that promotes research into, and an understanding of, the workings of the economy. In addition to a relative small in-house staff (a few dozen), the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) includes several hundred of the best and the brightest economic professors at major universities as NBER researchers. At last count, a dozen Nobel Prize winners have included the title of NBER researcher on their resumes. The NBER sponsors research on assorted topics, including the development of quantitative economic measures and the analysis of public policies.
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Lewis Carroll, the author of Alice in Wonderland, was the pseudonym of Charles Dodgson, an accomplished mathematician and economist.
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"Good judgment comes from experience, and often experience comes from bad judgment." -- Rita Mae Brown ‚ Writer
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