Friday, December 2, 2011

Class Lecture #38 - 12/2

Price Floors:
 - Most common price floor = minimum wage
 - When you set a price (or wage) floor,
      * Quantity demand for employers goes down because firms don't want to hire as many workers
      * Quantity supply for employers goes up because more workers want to make more $
 - As a result of all this, a surplus of workers develops and this causes higher rates of unemployment
 - Is there a better way to pay workers --> E.I.T.C. (Earned Income Tax Credit)

Illegal Drugs
 - making them illegal means you keep the same point (price) of equilibrium, but the supply curve becomes steeper because it costs more to supply these drugs
 - As a result, the people who handle drug transactions are only those who know what they're doing

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