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TOTAL UTILITY: The total satisfaction of wants and needs obtained from the use or consumption of a good and service. This term should be contrasted with the related term marginal utility. Total utility is most often used in consumer demand theory to indicate how much overall satisfaction someone obtains from a given activity.
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DEADWEIGHT LOSS The decrease in the sum of consumer surplus and producer surplus that results from the imposition of a tax. When a tax drives a wedge between demand price and supply price it disrupts what otherwise would be an efficient market equilibrium. Inefficiency arises because while a portion of the sum of consumer and producer surplus is merely transferred to government, a portion of this sum also disappears. The part that disappears is the deadweight loss and is an indicator of the inefficiency of the tax.
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Today, you are likely to spend a great deal of time looking for the new strip mall out on the highway looking to buy either a pair of red and purple designer socks or a T-shirt commemorating Thor Heyerdahl's Pacific crossing aboard the Kon-Tiki. Be on the lookout for door-to-door salesmen.
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The earliest known use of paper currency was about 1270 in China during the rule of Kubla Khan.
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"Well done is better than well said. " -- Benjamin Franklin, statesman, inventor
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IIA
Irrelevance of Independent Alternatives
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