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AR: The abbreviation for average revenue, which is the revenue received for selling a good, per unit of output sold, found by dividing total revenue by the quantity of output. Average revenue actually goes by a simpler and more widely used term... price. Average revenue is really a fancy-schmancy term for the price received by a seller for selling a good. However, using the longer term average revenue let's us see the connection with other terms, like total revenue, marginal revenue, and quantity.
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Lesson 1: Economic Basics | Unit 5: Policies
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Because markets are imperfect, government is prompted to intervene with economic policies.- Economic policies are government actions designed to affect economic activity and pursue one or more economic goals.
Policies can take the form of:- Laws passed by legislatures.
- Administrative actions taken by elected executives.
- Rules set forth by government agencies.
- Decisions made through the courts.
The government has four types of policies.- Fiscal policy: Based on government's power to collect taxes from the public and spend those funds as it chooses. Used for income redistribution and macroeconomic performance.
- Monetary policy: Based on government's centralized control of the money supply. Used for macroeconomic performance.
- Regulatory policy: Based on government's ability to enact laws, rules and restrictions. Used for efficiency and equity
- Judicial policy: Based on government's ability to enforce laws through the courts. Used for efficiency and equity
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INDUCED EXPENDITURES Expenditures on aggregate production by the four macroeconomic sectors that depend on income or production (especially national income or even gross domestic product). That is, changes in income generate changes in these expenditures. Each of the four aggregate expenditures--consumption, investment expenditures, government purchases, and net exports--have an induced component. Induced expenditures are measured by the slope of the aggregate expenditures line. The alternative to induced expenditures are autonomous expenditures, expenditures which do not depend on income.
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Today, you are likely to spend a great deal of time searching the newspaper want ads looking to buy either a lighted magnifying glass or a small, foam rubber football. Be on the lookout for empty parking spaces that appear to be near the entrance to a store.
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Lombard Street is London's equivalent of New York's Wall Street.
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"Look at the abundance all around you as you go about your daily business. You have as much right to this abundance as any other living creature. It's yours for the asking." -- Earl Nightingale
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UTP
Unfair Trade Practice
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