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vehicle bias
Difference in actual willingness to pay and willingness to pay revealed in a survey arising from the choice of a payment instrument for a survey. Vehicles include changes in local taxes, entrance fees [..]
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ability-to-pay principle
A principle of taxation in which taxes are based on the income or resource-ownership ability of people to pay the tax. The income tax is one of the most common taxes that seeks to abide by the ability [..]
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absolute advantage
The ability of a producer to produce a higher absolute quantity of a good with the productive resource available.
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acid rain
The precipitation of dilute solutions of strong mineral acids, formed by the mixing in the atmosphere of various industrial pollutants -- primarily sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxides -- with naturally [..]
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aquifer
Underground source of water
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acquired endowments
resources a country builds for itself, like a network of roads or an educated population
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adaptive expectations
expectations based on the extrapolation of events in the recent past into the future
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adverse selection
principle that says that those who most want to buy insurance tend to be those most at risk, but charging a high price for insurance (to cover the high risk)will discourage those at less risk from buy [..]
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aggregate demand curve
a curve relating the total demand for the economy's goods and services at each price level, given the level of wages
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aggregate expenditures schedule
a curve that traces out the relationship between expenditures--the sum of consumption, investment, government expenditures, and net exports--and the national income, at a fixed price level
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