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MACROECONOMIC POLICY: Government policy aimed at the aggregate economy, usually to promote the macro goals of full employment, stability, and growth. Common macroeconomic policies are fiscal and monetary.
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AUCTIONS: Formal markets where buyers and sellers come together to negotiate a price. Auctions are commonly held for agricultural commodities, financial instruments, and works of art. The four most common types of auctions are English, Dutch, sealed-bid, and Walrasian tatonnement. See also | information | asymmetric information | adverse selection | signalling | moral hazard | advertising | market | opportunity cost | labor market |
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SCARCE RESOURCE A resource with an available quantity less than its desired use. Scarce, or economic, resources are also called factors of production and are generally classified as either labor, capital, land, or entrepreneurship. Scarce resources are the workers, equipment, raw materials, and organizers used to produce scarce goods. Like the more general society-wide condition of scarcity, a given resource falls into the scarce category because it has a limited availability in combination with greater (potentially unlimited) productive uses.
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Today, you are likely to spend a great deal of time looking for a downtown retail store trying to buy either a weathervane with a cow on top or a box of multi-colored, plastic paper clips. Be on the lookout for neighborhood pets, especially belligerent parrots.
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The wealthy industrialist, Andrew Carnegie, was once removed from a London tram because he lacked the money needed for the fare.
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"Consult not your fears, but your hopes and your dreams. Think not about your frustrations, but about your unfulfilled potential. Concern yourself not with what you tried and failed in, but with what it is still possible for you to do. " -- Pope John XXIII
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