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GOLD STANDARD: Use of gold as the standard for valuing a nation's currency. A gold standard can take at least three different forms, most of which have been part of the American economic landscape. (1) Gold is used as the money in circulation. (2) Gold is used to back up paper money in circulation. This involves the use of something like a gold certificate, such that the number of certificates in circulation is the same as the amount of gold stored someplace like Fort Knox. (3) Gold is used to fix the exchange price of paper currency in circulation. In this case, the currency could, in principle, be exchanged for some predetermined amount of gold. In other words, the price of gold is fixed in terms of dollars.
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ECONOMICS OF INFORMATION The study of the role that information plays in the economy and in the allocation of resources, with special attention paid to efficient information search. Key topics in this area of study and analysis are asymmetric information, moral hazard, adverse selection, signalling, and screening. This study of the economics of information also provides insight into the analysis of risk and uncertainty, which are important to insurance and financial markets.
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Today, you are likely to spend a great deal of time going from convenience store to convenience store trying to buy either a coffee cup commemorating the first day of winter or a video game player. Be on the lookout for vindictive digital clocks with revenge on their minds.
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Approximately three-fourths of the U.S. paper currency in circular contains traces of cocaine.
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"Life is a promise; fulfill it. " -- Mother Teresa, humanitarian
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