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INDUCED IMPORTS: Imports from the foreign sector that depend on domestic income or production (especially national income and gross domestic product). That is, changes in income induce changes in imports. Induced imports are measured by the marginal propensity to import (MPM) and are reflected by a positive slope of imports line. Induced imports are the reason for induced net exports, generating a negatively sloped net exports line. Autonomous net exports are due to a combination of autonomous exports and autonomous imports.
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Lesson 17: Money | Unit 4: Money's History
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Because barter has limitations, the double coincidence of needs, peoples used commodities as money. Commodity money: - When they began using a widely desired commodity, they created commodity money.
- Commodity money has value in use and value in trade.
- The value in use dictates value in trade.
- Some commodities are better than others in terms of the four money characteristics.
- Our ancestors tried many different commodities before finding one type that fits the characteristics better than most metals.
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POINT ELASTICITY The relative responsiveness of a change in one variable (call it B) to an infinitesimally small change in another variable (call it A). The notion of point elasticity typically comes into play when discussing the elasticity at a specific point on a curve.
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Potato chips were invented in 1853 by a irritated chef repeatedly seeking to appease the hard to please Cornelius Vanderbilt who demanded french fried potatoes that were thinner and crisper than normal.
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"Lord, where we are wrong, make us willing to change; where we are right, make us easy to live with. " -- Peter Marshall, US Senate chaplain
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CAP Common Agricultural Policy
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