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THREE QUESTIONS OF ALLOCATION: The three basic questions that an economy must answer because of limited resources and unlimited wants and needs are: What? How? and For Whom? The basic problem of scarcity requires every society to determine: What goods to produce? How to produce the goods? and Who receives the goods that are produced?
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Lesson 20: Oligopoly | Unit 5: Evaluation
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In this unit, you should have learned about:- The bad of oligopoly, which is inefficiency and concentration of wealth that can created other problems.
- The good of oligopoly, which is innovation that increases living standards and large scale production that provides more output out lower prices.
- That government intervention to correct the bads of oligopoly at the expense of the goods is almost always controversial and seldom a clear-cut decision.
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MARGINALLY-ATTACHED WORKERS People who are willing and able to work, who have either held a job or searched for employment within the last year, but are not actively seeking employment. Discouraged workers, people who are willing and able to engage in productive activities, but due to their overwhelming lack of success believe that any effort to find a job will be fruitless so they have stopped seeking employment, fall within this broader category of marginally-attached workers. People can be marginally attached to the labor force for a variety of reasons, discouraged workers, in contrast, achieve their designation specifically because they believe search efforts are not worthwhile.
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The first "Black Friday" on record, a friday marked by a major financial catastrophe, occurred on September 24, 1869 -- A FRIDAY -- when an attempted cornering of the gold market induced a financial crises and economy-wide depression.
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"You miss 100% of the shots you never take. " -- Wayne Gretzky, hockey player
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