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HORIZONTAL EQUITY: A system of taxes that treats equal people equally. In other words, if you make the same income as someone else and pay the same personal income taxes, then you have horizontal equity.

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Lesson 20: Oligopoly | Unit 5: Evaluation Page: 23 of 24

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  • A couple of important questions regarding Government Intervention:

    1. Do the bads of oligopoly outweigh the goods?
    2. If so, can government make it better?

  • A major obstacle to answering these questions is that the evidence is seldom clear-cut.
  • While concentration creates the opportunity for greater inefficiency, it's no guarantee.

  • Should government intervention be pursued, it generally comes in one of three ways:

    1. Antitrust Laws
    2. Price Regulation
    3. Public Ownership


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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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The first U.S. fire insurance company was established by Benjamin Franklin in 1752 in Philadelphia.
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