concentric circle The movement of freight and people has evolved over time and can be described as the “spatial evolution of economic systems.” Four major stages have occurred in this evolutionary process. The stages include which of the following? Pre-industrial‚ industrial revolution‚ Fordism‚ and post-Fordism Which of the following is true regarding Lardner’s Law and market reach? If transportation costs are reduced in half‚ the radius of the market area doubles and the market area is four
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post-war economic miracle The war wiped out many of the gains Japan had made since 1868. About 40% of the nation’s industrial plants and infrastructure were destroyed‚ and production reverted to levels of about fifteen years earlier. The people were shocked by the devastation and swung into action. New factories were equipped with the best modern machines‚ giving Japan an initial competitive advantage over the victor states‚ who now had older factories. As Japan’s second period of economic development
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businesses sell products and buy resources Which is a normative statement? The unemployment rate of 6.8 percent is too high. The market system is a method of communicating and coordinating economic decisions Property rights encourage investment‚ innovation‚ exchange‚ maintenance of property‚ and economic growth. True In a market system‚ the government owns most of the property resources (land and capital). False An \"innovator\" is defined as an entrepreneur who introduces new products on the
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where they live; and consumers typically have a very limited set of goods to choose from. As a result‚ many of the tools and concepts of microeconomics are of limited relevance in those countries. •macroeconomics Branch of economics that deals with aggregate economic variables‚ such as the level and growth rate of national output‚ inter· est rates‚ unemployment‚ and inflation. Trade-Offs In modern market economies‚ consumers‚ workers‚ and firms have much more flexibilityand choicewhen
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Report for: Ford motor company Title: Economics and the Business World Date: 20th December 2012 2012 Table of content Introduction 1) PESTLE Analysis 2) BP Market Structure 1.0 Introduction I am an economist that has recently joined Ford motor company‚ and I have been asked to compile a report to investigating the PESTEL factors which ford are or have been faced with and identifying their main area of concern. This report will also provide a detailed look on the market
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considered ethics and economics are inseparable. His thoughts about political and socio-economic structure of society are indispensible to study. The ideas were later developed and detailed by John Rawls in Theory of Justice‚ which are retrospective of Gandhi’s thoughts. To understand where Gandhian Economics stand: “Gandhian economics” is a term coined by late J.C. Kumarappan‚ who was an Indian economist. He gives the examples on types of economy in his book ‘Gandhian Economic Thought’ which is reproduced
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According to The Law of Demand‚ when the price of housing rises and everything else remains the same‚ the
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Economics Definition 1) Scarcity- the limited nature of society’s resources 2) Economics- the study of how society manages it’s scarce resources 3) Efficiency- the property of society getting the most it can from it’s scarce resources 4) Equality- the property of distributing economics prosperity uniformly among the members of society 5) Opportunity cost- whatever must be given up or forgone to obtain some item 6) Rational people- people who systematically and purposefully
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Sarah Grumbine AP Economics July 26‚ 2013 What’s to Love about Economics? 1. Law enforcement agencies seek for lawbreakers to create problems in which they are fined for crimes they have committed. They want this to happen in order to create fines for these criminals in order for the agencies to make a certain amount of revenue from the fines that the lawbreakers pay as a consequence of their actions. Some laws that law enforcement agencies set up in order to create this type of revenue
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