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         <title><![CDATA[Price Elasticity Calculations]]></title>
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         <title><![CDATA[Natural Increase]]></title>
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         <title><![CDATA[Monetary Policy and Ag Demand]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[An examination of what happens when we have cost of living allowances in an aggregate demand, aggregate supply model]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Health Care Debate]]></title>
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         <title><![CDATA[Efforts to Control Monopoly]]></title>
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         <title><![CDATA[Delta]]></title>
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         <title><![CDATA[Constant Absolute Risk Aversion (CARA) - Glossary - Dictionary Definition of Constant Absolute Risk Aversion (CARA)]]></title>
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         <title><![CDATA[Top 11 Unsolved Econ Problems]]></title>
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         <title><![CDATA[Gay Marriage Makes Cents]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[ Gay Marriage Makes Cents. The essay is Christine Halverson's entry for The 2004 Moffatt Prize in Economics. ]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Factor and Scale Returns]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[Article answers the question: Consider the production function Q = K[sup]a[/sup]L[sup]b[/sup].[p] Find conditions on a and b so that the function exhibits decreasing returns to each factor, but increasing returns to scale.[p]]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[The Growth of Government]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[A look at the growth of government services in the United States.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Bretton Woods System]]></title>
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         <title><![CDATA[Political Science]]></title>
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         <title><![CDATA[Derivatives]]></title>
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         <title><![CDATA[U.S. Dollar and the Economy]]></title>
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         <title><![CDATA[International Economics]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[Article for beginners answers the question: What is International Economics?]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Proportional Representation ]]></title>
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         <title><![CDATA[American Industrial Growth]]></title>
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         <title><![CDATA[The Logic of Collective Action]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[Why do so many government policies make such little economic sense? The best answer I've seen to this question comes from The Logic of Collective Action. Mancur Olson's The Logic of Collective Action explains why some groups are able to have a larger influence on government policy than others.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Ingredients: U.S. Economy]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[An examination of the capitalist economy of the United States.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Tertiary Sector]]></title>
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         <title><![CDATA[Natural Experiment]]></title>
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         <title><![CDATA[The Economic Effect of Tariffs]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[In my article &quot;The Softwood Lumber Dispute&quot; we saw an example of a tariff placed on a foreign good. A tariff is simply a tax or duty placed on an imported good by a domestic government. Tariffs are usually levied as a percentage of the declared value of the good, similar to a sales tax. ]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Economics - Articles]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[An index of Articles for the Economics guide site.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[The Market For Corporate Control - Glossary - Dictionary Definition of The Market For Corporate Control]]></title>
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         <title><![CDATA[Market Power - Glossary - Dictionary Definition of Market Power]]></title>
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         <title><![CDATA[Wars and the Economy]]></title>
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         <title><![CDATA[Asset Pricing Models]]></title>
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         <title><![CDATA[Dumping]]></title>
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