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ECONOMIC EFFICIENCY: Obtaining the most consumer satisfaction from available resources. This is what most economists mean when the term efficiency arises. Economic efficiency means our economy is doing the best job possible of satisfying unlimited wants and needs with limited resources--that is, of addressing the problem of scarcity.
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DOUBLE COINCIDENCE OF WANTS The requirements of a barter exchange that each trader has want the other wants and wants what the other has. Because everyone does not necessarily want everything, the lack of double coincidence of wants is a major obstacle in barter exchanges, especially for complex, modern economies like that fond in the United States. While double coincidence of wants is also essential for exchanges involving money, it is such an inherent trait of money that it is not a problem. By its very nature as a generally accepted medium of exchange, everyone WANTS money.
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Today, you are likely to spend a great deal of time wandering around the shopping mall looking to buy either a green fountain pen or a handcrafted bird house. Be on the lookout for slightly overweight pizza delivery guys.
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A thousand years before metal coins were developed, clay tablet "checks" were used as money by the Babylonians.
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"He who truly knows has no occasion to shout. " -- Leonardo da Vinci, painter, sculptor, architect, engineer
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