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Taxation and Deadweight Loss

Taxation and Deadweight Loss

Taxation and Deadweight Loss Overview Governments get paid by enforcing taxes on both producers and consumers. When taxes are imposed, this reduces the quantity of a product that will be sold in the market. And whenever the market is not in equilibrium due to an...
What is Standard Deviation?

What is Standard Deviation?

What Is Standard Deviation? When studying a dataset (collection of data), there are several measurements statisticians use in order to interpret it. The most common one is the mean.  Let’s look at it with an example: Let’s say we want to know how many pens...
What Is Elasticity?

What Is Elasticity?

What is Elasticity? In Economics, elasticity measures the percentage change of one economic variable in response to a change in another. Let’s look at this concept with an example: 1. say we have two rubber bands with the same length: rubber band A represents...
price ceilings and price floors

price ceilings and price floors

What are price controls? The Economy can be left to its own device, letting demand and supply be defined by free markets, or the government can intervene and set price controls. The whole idea is to limit the maximum and minimum prices charged to the consumer. There...