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DISCRIMINATION: Treating people differently based on some sort of group characteristic--like race, ethnic origin, or gender--rather then individual abilities. Discrimination is usually most prominent in employment and housing, but can filter into all aspects of life in many subtle ways. Discrimination tends to be inefficient because it limits the number of buyers or sellers that have access to a given market. Those who discriminate in this manner are, in essence, willing to pay extra for the privilege of associating only with "their own kind."
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EQUILIBRIUM, LONG-RUN AGGREGATE MARKET The state of equilibrium that exists in the long-run aggregate market when real aggregate expenditures are equal to full-employment real production with no imbalances to induce changes in the price level or real production. The opposing forces of aggregate demand (the buyers) and long-run aggregate supply (the sellers) exactly offset each other. At the existing price level, the four macroeconomic sectors (household, business, government, and foreign) purchase all of the real production that they seek and producers sell all of the real production that they have.
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Today, you are likely to spend a great deal of time at a crowded estate auction hoping to buy either a hepa filter for your furnace or a wall poster commemorating next Thursday. Be on the lookout for door-to-door salesmen.
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The word "fiscal" is derived from a Latin word meaning "moneybag."
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"Whenever an individual or a business decides that success has been attained, progress stops. " -- Thomas Watson Jr., IBM executive
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