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TARIFFS: Taxes that are usually on imports, but occasionally (very rarely) on exports. This is one form of trade barrier that's intended to restrict imports into a country. Unlike nontariff barriers and quotas which increase prices and thus revenue received by domestic producers, a tariff generates revenue for the government. Most pointy-headed economists who spend their waking hours pondering the plight of foreign trade contend that the best way to restrict trade, if that's what you want to do, is through a tariff.
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TOTAL FIXED COST CURVE A curve that graphically represents the relation between total fixed cost incurred by a firm in the short-run product of a good or service and the quantity produced. This curve is constructed to capture the relation between total fixed cost and the level of output, holding other variables, like technology and resource prices, constant. Because total fixed cost are, in fact, fixed, the total fixed cost curve is, in fact, a horizontal line. The total fixed cost curve is one of three total cost curves, the other two are total cost curve and total variable cost curve.
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Today, you are likely to spend a great deal of time at an auction hoping to buy either a coffee table shaped like the state of Florida or storage boxes for your summer clothes. Be on the lookout for broken fingernail clippers.
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In the late 1800s and early 1900s, almost 2 million children were employed as factory workers.
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JRE
Journal of Regulatory Economics
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