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PER UNIT TAX: A tax that is specified as a fixed amount for each unit of a good sold. Federal excise taxes on gasoline and cigarettes fall into this per unit tax category.

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ASYMMETRIC INFORMATION

Information is not equally available to everyone. Asymmetric information results because efficient information search inevitably stops short of compete information. Some people obtain more benefits from information than others, are willing to incur higher search costs, and thus end up knowing more. Or they incur lower information search costs and have easier access to the information. In a market, sellers tend to have more information about the good than buyers. Asymmetric information gives rise to adverse selection, moral hazard, and the principal-agent problem. These problems can be lessened through signalling and screening.

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Today, you are likely to spend a great deal of time strolling through a department store seeking to buy either a replacement washer for your kitchen faucet or a stretchable, flexible watch band. Be on the lookout for malfunctioning pocket calculators.
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In the late 1800s and early 1900s, almost 2 million children were employed as factory workers.
"It is very rare that you meet with obstacles in this world (that) the humblest man has not the faculties to surmount. "

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