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ADVERSE SELECTION: When a negotiation between two people with different amounts of information, that is, asymmetric information, restricts the quality of the good traded. This typically happens because the person with more information is able to negotiate a favorable exchange. This is frequently referred to as the "market for lemons."

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Lesson 11: Elasticity Basics | Unit 2: A Little More Page: 8 of 25

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  • Governments levy taxes for two reasons:

    1. Revenue Generation: To collect the revenue needed to operate and to provide public goods.
    2. Resource Allocation: To change the allocation of resources and to alter the production and consumption of specific goods.

  • Elasticity determines how effectively a tax achieves it's desired goal.

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FIRST ESTATE

Another term for the government or public sector. This is one of four divisions of society based on economic function. The other three are businesses as the second estate, consumers as the third estate, and journalists as the fourth estate.

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ORANGE REBELOON
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Today, you are likely to spend a great deal of time wandering around the downtown area seeking to buy either a dozen high trajectory optic orange golf balls or a large red and white striped beach towel. Be on the lookout for cardboard boxes.
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John Maynard Keynes was born the same year Karl Marx died.
"If I have ever made any valuable discoveries, it has been owing more to patient attention than to any other talent. "

-- Isaac Newton, mathematician, physicist

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