Author: Prabhu TL.
Government Budget Deficits and Government Debt
Introduction Definitions and Basics ● Government Debt and Deficits, from the Concise Encyclopedia of Economics ● Government debt is the stock of outstanding…
Government Failures, Rent Seeking, and Public Choice
Introduction Definitions and Basics ● Rent Seeking, by David R. Henderson, from the Concise Encyclopedia of Economics ● “Rent seeking” is one of…
Market Failures, Public Goods, and Externalities
Introduction Definitions and Basics ● Definition: Market failure, from Answers.com ● An economic term that encompasses a situation where, in any given market,…
Roles of Government
Introduction Definitions and Basics ● Public Goods and Externalities, from the Concise Encyclopedia of Economics ● Most economic arguments for government intervention are…
Fiscal Policy
Definitions and Basics ● Fiscal Policy, from the Concise Encyclopedia of Economics ● Fiscal policy is the use of government spending and taxation…
Economic exchange
Economic behaviour involves the exchange of one scarce resource for another. When people engage in paid work, they exchange their…
Income Inequality
Definitions and Basics ● Robert Frank on Inequality , podcast on EconTalk. November 15, 2010 ● Robert Frank of Cornell University talks with…
Income Distribution
Introduction ● Income distribution refers to four different topics in economics. See also the related College Economics Topic, Income Inequality. When you…
Economic Development
Introduction Definitions and Basics ● Third World Economic Development, from the Concise Encyclopedia of Economics ● The development experiences of Third World countries since…
Productivity
Introduction Definitions and Basics ● Productivity, from the Concise Encyclopedia of Economics ● Productivity—the amount of output per unit of input—is a basic yardstick…