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What would you give up on the Internet?

Many Internet services are free: email, Internet search, and maps, for example. But what if you had to pay to use them? An economist sets out to discover how much people value various Internet services by asking how much they would need to be paid to give them up. It’s an example of a core […]

Posted bynpr_h1dlv5October 15, 2019October 29, 2019Posted inDecision Making

Decision Making and the Stock Market

Millions of people invest billions of dollars in the stock market to make their money grow. Some pool their money with other investors in high risk investment vehicles known as hedge funds. Hedge fund managers employ a variety of strategies with the goal of doing better than the stock market as a whole. The third […]

Posted bynpr_h1dlv5October 15, 2019October 29, 2019Posted inDecision Making

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  • Competition and Market Structure
  • Decision Making
  • Economic Fluctuations
  • Economic Growth
  • Entrepreneurship
  • Fiscal and Monetary Policy
  • Government Failure
  • Incentives
  • Income
  • Institutions
  • Interest Rates
  • Markets and Prices
  • Money and Inflation
  • Role of Government and Market Failure
  • Role of Prices
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  • Unemployment and Inflation

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