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LIBERAL: A political view that favors--(1) paternalistic government, (2) correction of market failure with government intervention, (3) equal opportunities for all citizens regardless of race, age, gender, ethnic origin, or planet of origin, (4) redistribution of income and wealth, and (5) extensive regulation and control by government over the profit-seeking businesses of the second estate.
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Lesson 3: Scarcity | Unit 1: The Concept
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- Scarcity is the pervasive condition that exists because society has unlimited wants and needs, but limited resources used for their satisfaction.
Meaning:- We can't have everything because resources are limited.
Unlimited wants and needs are half of the scarcity problem.- Unlimited wants and needs are what motivate us to take action, to produce goods, and to advance our well-being.
- We are motivated to do things that satisfy these wants and needs. Satisfaction is achieved when wants and needs are fulfilled.
- Scarcity results because wants and needs are unlimited. No one has ever been completely satisfied. We always want more.
Limited resources are the other half of our scarcity problem. - Resources are the stuff that we use to produce the goods that fulfill our wants and needs.
- Resources are the things that make satisfaction possible.
- Resources are limited. We have only so much 'stuff' than can be used to produce the goods that satisfy our wants and needs.
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MANAGED FLEXIBLE EXCHANGE RATE An exchange rate control policy in which an exchange rate that is generally allowed to adjust to equilibrium levels through to the interaction of supply and demand in the foreign exchange market, but with occasional intervention by government. Also termed managed float or dirty float, most nations of the world currently use a managed flexible exchange rate policy. With this alternative an exchange rate is free to rise and fall, but it is subject to government control if it moves too high or too low. With managed float, the government steps into the foreign exchange market and buys or sells whatever currency is necessary keep the exchange rate within desired limits. This is one of three basic exchange rate policies used by domestic governments. The other two policies are flexible exchange rate and fixed exchange rate.
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