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DISMAL SCIENCE: A term for the study of economics developed during the late 18th and early 19th century when economists concluded that continued population growth would push wages and living standards to a minimal subsistence level and keep them there. It persists to the present time because economics continue to point out that actions result in opportunity cost, that nothing is free, and that eventually society has to pay the price for what it does.

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BUSINESS TRANSFER PAYMENTS

Payments by the business sector to the household sector without any corresponding production. Business transfer payments are essentially gifts, or subsidies, made to the household sector from the business sector. At the aggregated level, this is one of several key differences between national income (the resource cost of production) and gross (and net) domestic product (the market value of production). Business transfer payments (BTP) tend to be quite small, invariably less than 1 percent of gross domestic product.

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Today, you are likely to spend a great deal of time looking for a downtown retail store looking to buy either storage boxes for your income tax returns or an AC adapter for your CD player. Be on the lookout for cardboard boxes.
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General Electric is the only stock from the original 1896 Dow Jones Industrial Average remaining in the current index.
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