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BUREAUCRAT: Someone who works in a bureaucracy. Usually the term bureaucrat is used as a deregulatory, even profane, description of a government employee (such as "that dirty faceless bureaucrat"), indicating that the person would need serious genetic restructuring to be included in the human race. Closer genetic inspection (and the theory of public choice), however, indicates that the real culprit is complex bureaucracies and the rules under which they operate.

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Lesson 3: Scarcity | Unit 5: THE Problem Page: 17 of 17

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  • Why scarcity is considered to be THE economic problem.
  • Why economists say that there are no free lunches.
  • The pervasive problem of scarcity faced by all societies past and present.
  • How we might solve the scarcity problem through limited wants and needs or unlimited resources and why this is unlikely to happen.

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MARKET DEMAND

The combined demand of everyone willing and able to buy a good in a market. Market demand is one half of the market. The other is market supply. It is graphically represented by a negatively-sloped market demand curve, which can be derived by combining, or adding, the individual demands of every buyer in the market.

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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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