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POLLUTION: Any waste that imposes an opportunity cost when it's returned to the natural environment. Pollution is one of the more prevalent examples of an externality cost and market failure. Examples include, but by no means are limited to, car exhaust, municipal sewage, industrial waste, and agricultural chemical runoff from farms. Pollution waste can be classified as degradable, persistent, or nondegradable, depending on how easily it can be broken down into nonharmful form by the natural environment. Pollution problems can never be eliminated, but they can be handled with efficiency if the amount of pollution is such that the cost of damages is the same as the cost of cleanup.
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VARIABLES Quantities, usually represented as symbols, that can take on one of a set of values. A variable is "variable" because its value can "vary." A primary goal of economic analysis is to determine the specific value that a variable takes on under specific circumstances.
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Today, you are likely to spend a great deal of time flipping through mail order catalogs wanting to buy either a 200-foot blue garden hose or a video camera with stop action features. Be on the lookout for door-to-door salesmen.
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The New York Stock Exchange was established by a group of investors in New York City in 1817 under a buttonwood tree at the end of a little road named Wall Street.
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"Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it. " -- John Quincy Adams, 6th U. S. president
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Sydney Futures Exchange
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