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TAX: Any sort of forced or coerced payment to government. The primary reason government collects taxes is to get the revenue needed to finance public goods and pay administrative expenses. However, the more astute leaders of the first estate have recognized over the years that taxes have other effects, including--(1) redirecting resources from one good to another and (2) altering the total amount of production in the economy. As such, taxes have been used to correct market failures, equalize the income distribution, achieve efficiency, stabilize business cycles, and promote economic growth.
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Lesson 8: Market Shocks | Unit 4: Double Shifts
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Less Demand and Less Supply
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Here we have demand decreasing (tastes change) and supply decreasing (number of sellers declines).- A decrease in demand causes a decrease in both price and quantity.
- A decrease supply causes price to increase and quantity to decrease.
- The combined effect is an obvious decrease in quantity but a questionable change in price.
- At the new equilibrium the price is indeterminant.
- If both demand and supply curve shift in the same direction, then quantity also changes in that direction, but price is indeterminant.
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UNEMPLOYED The condition in which a resource (especially labor) is NOT actively engaged in a productive activity, but IS actively seeking employment. This general condition forms the conceptual basis for one of the three categories used by the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) when classifying an individual's labor force status--employed persons. The other two BLS categories are employed persons and not in the labor force.
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Sixty percent of big-firm executives said the cover letter is as important or more important than the resume itself when you're looking for a new job
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"We succeed in enterprises (that) demand the positive qualities we possess, but we excel in those (that) can also make use of our defects." -- Alexis de Tocqueville, Statesman
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DBD Declining Balance Depreciation
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