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A) workers to look for a better job.
B) potential workers to remain out of the labor force.
C) workers to retain their current job.
D) workers to get more job training.

A) workers to retain their current job.

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is P=2 + .4Q. What are the equilibrium price and the quantity? Now suppose an excise tax is imposed on X such that the new supply equation is P= 4 + ..4Q. How much tax revenue will this excise tax yield the government? Graph the curves and label the area of the graph that represents the tax collection “TC” and the area that represents the efficiency loss of the tax “EL”. Briefly explain why area EL is the efficiency loss of the tax but TC is not. ( this is a q? from my micro econ class… I am completely lost)

1)
8-0.6Q=2+0.4Q
Q=8-2=6
P=4.4

2)
8-0.6Q=4+0.4Q
Q=8-4=4
P=5.6
Tax=$2 per unit of output
TaxRevenue= Q*T = 4*2=8

3)
Efficiency loss (dead-weight loss or loss of total surplus) for linear demand and supply is area of triangle:
EL = (Q1-Q2) * T/2 = (6-4) * 2/2 = 2

4)
EL means nobody will get this surplus - it is lost due to higher price (regulation/tax/etc.) but TC is part of total surplus transferred from producers and consumers to government.

Visual representation is here:
http://www.econmodel.com/classic/terms/s…

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It’s basically over for the American People.

Are you happy that more and more of America’s past is getting sold off bit by bit and you will become slaves of the European and Asian Markets.

First, We haven’t officially even entered a recession. there have not been two quaters of negative growth yet.

Second US recessions typically last 11 months. Third, how’s Europes recession starting to taste. As the US goes economically, so does the world. We are the leader in more way than one…

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biology (biological determinism) or social context (gender socialization).

BIOLOGY- Biological Determinism: is the hypothesis that biological factors such as an organism’s individual genes (as opposed to social or environmental factors) completely determine how a system behaves or changes over time.
Consider certain human behaviors, such as having a particular taste in music, committing murder, or writing poetry. A biological determinist would look only at innate factors, such as genetic makeup, in deciding whether or not a given person would exhibit these behaviors. They would ignore non-innate factors, such as social customs and expectations, education, and physical environment.

SOCIAL- Gender socialization: Gender socialization refers to the learning of behavior and attitudes considered appropriate for a given sex. Boys learn to be boys and girls learn to be girls. This “learning” happens by way of many different agents of socialization. (Family, school, peer groups)

I’ve found that most people attribute many gender attributes to biology despite evidence that those particular attributes were probably learned. They start grooming their kids from babyhood to be stereotypically male or female, depending on how rigid their own perceptions of gender roles/attributes are. I don’t think most people have a deep awareness of how gender is learned, and they’re content with accepting norms.

On the other hand I think that there are some aspects of each individual that are biologically based and were not shaped by their environment. Whether we consider those things “male” or “female” is still a social construct, but some of these may be more commonly found in individuals who are biologically female or male.

Lower class women: They’re more likely to go with men just for their money and leave him broke.
Upper class women: They’re more likely to not date men, but marry a guy and would accept him for who he is.
I heard that from someone but is that true? It can go the other way around now because we all know how women are these days.
Is there really a difference between those two types of women and the same?

I would think it was the other way around, many upperclass or successful women marry for money or social status, where as many lowerclass or poverty stricken women marry those that accept them and love them for who they are, if they married for money they wouldn’t be considered lowclass anymore now would they?

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Umm that’s not true. People date for a long time and fall inlove and stay togeather forever. My mom met my dad at 15 and theyve stayed togeather for more than 20 years! Love is love! I think that ppl should fall in love. Love is magical, and it’s not all about money and support. A woman can take care of herself and get the things that she wants by earnign them! I want to fall in love and get married after college. well, fall in love during college. love is everything! It hurts and it rocks and its… everything again,

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I think what they meant was, women who have no class act the first way, and classy women act the second way. Your income isn’t going to make much of a difference.

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Women with real class do not fall into your arbitrary categories and do not behave as you and your buddies seem to think.

It seems as if people who use less (1 car family for instance), should not have to pay the same price per gallon as a, say, a trucking company who uses 10 times as much gas.

trying to set up a controlled structure to ration gasoline will create huge inefficiencies that can be taken care of more simply in other ways. You need the free market to properly price gasoline, the people who make the most efficient use of gasoline, probably trains who burn diesel fuel to haul freight, will be able to stay in business while the less efficient users, single families with 5 SUVs, all driving around the same town at the same time, will eventually be priced out of the market and have to cut back to ride sharing or buying a prius.

We need to let the price rise according to the free market, so that people will change wasteful behavior.

If there are short term crises that need to be addressed, you can provide targeted tax credits or other payment supports for people behaving in a desirable method

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trying to set up a controlled structure to ration gasoline will create huge inefficiencies that can be taken care of more simply in other ways. You need the free market to properly price gasoline, the people who make the most efficient use of gasoline, probably trains who burn diesel fuel to haul freight, will be able to stay in business while the less efficient users, single families with 5 SUVs, all driving around the same town at the same time, will eventually be priced out of the market and have to cut back to ride sharing or buying a prius.

We need to let the price rise according to the free market, so that people will change wasteful behavior.

If there are short term crises that need to be addressed, you can provide targeted tax credits or other payment supports for people behaving in a desirable method