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PIGOUVIAN TAX: A tax on an external cost, such as pollution, designed to use market forces to achieve an efficient allocation of resources. A. C. Pigou, one of the first economists to study the market failure of externalities, is credited with developing this tax system for internalizing costs external to the market. An external cost caused by pollution, for example, can be internalized if polluters pay a tax equal to the value of the external cost.
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GOVERNMENT BORROWING The acquisition of funds through the financial markets by the government sector which are used to finance government expenditures. In terms of the simple circular flow model, this is one of two basic demands for household saving diverted into financial markets. The other is investment borrowing. Government borrowing is also one of two methods of financing government expenditures. The other is taxes.
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Today, you are likely to spend a great deal of time browsing through a long list of dot com websites looking to buy either a birthday gift for your grandfather or a pleather CD case. Be on the lookout for empty parking spaces that appear to be near the entrance to a store.
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A lump of pure gold the size of a matchbox can be flattened into a sheet the size of a tennis court!
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ARMA
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