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ZONING: Legal restrictions on where different activities can locate within a city. Most cities regulate the location of industrial, commercial, and residential activities. The underlying motivation behind zoning is to keep less desirable, but perhaps more profitable, activities from encroaching upon residential areas.
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CREATIVE DESTRUCTION A fundamental process of capitalism, popularized by Joseph Schumpeter, in which the benefits of growth and prosperity induced by innovations also result in the costs of disrupting existing means of production. The creation of new activity involves the destruction of existing activity. This notion attributes business-cycle instability to innovations, including both the expansionary rise of prosperity, as well as a contractionary decline. Creative destruction is based on the idea that rather than tending toward equilibrium, the economy is largely in flux. A key question is one of cause and effect. Does innovation cause destruction or does destruction induce innovation?
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Today, you are likely to spend a great deal of time at a going out of business sale hoping to buy either a hepa filter for your furnace or a wall poster commemorating next Thursday. Be on the lookout for small children selling products door-to-door. Your Complete Scope
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Cyrus McCormick not only invented the reaper for harvesting grain, he also invented the installment payment for selling his reaper.
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"I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence, but it comes from within. It is there all the time. " -- Anna Freud, psychologist
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