... the externalities are paid for else where, for example in tax, which is paid by everyone whether road transport is used or not; there is no internal benefit not to use road transport. Consequently in the long term the effect upon the demand for road transport is minimal. Demand however ... a region. The effect of undercharging private car ownership that results in inefficient car use that in turn creates a situation where a car is no longer optional but a necessity. The increased demand for private car ownership reduces in the proportion of the population that make use of public transpo...

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... the externalities are paid for else where, for example in tax, which is paid by everyone whether road transport is used or not; there is no internal benefit not to use road transport. Consequently in the long term the effect upon the demand for road transport is minimal. Demand however ... a region. The effect of undercharging private car ownership that results in inefficient car use that in turn creates a situation where a car is no longer optional but a necessity. The increased demand for private car ownership reduces in the proportion of the population that make use of public transpo...

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... from overseas can also create vulnerabilities: consider if foreign suppliers acquired a monopoly (or form a cartel, a group of producers that, instead of competing with each other, fix prices) and then use it to inflate international prices or even refuse to sell at all. In the 1970s the oil producing countries joined together to form a cartel called OPEC (Organization of Petroleum ... prices, with far-reaching consequences for the global economy. Finally, arguments about specialization are very short-term. The model of comparative advantage considers states' current best production with...

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... is very unreliable as an inaccuracy of just 3% either way in real gross national product, stock of capital, size of the labour force, or shares of capital and labour in national product then the estimate of productivity change could range from 0.77% to 1.62%, this would mean the difference between failure or success when compared to the US figures for productivity ... growth. While McCloskey and Pollard are of the opinion that there wasn't a significant failure in the Victorian economy, I feel that there was room for improvement in both productivity and output, as resources were not .....

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... force behind the economy. This idea may seem somewhat profound, but it is also largely due to the loose definition and social ranking of an entrepreneur held by Cantillon himself. In the modern economy it seems like this notion has been lost; no one really looks at entrepreneurs as being the middle class driving force in economies, but rather a source of organization ... and management of risks involved in the business (more like an executive officer). Instead, maybe there should be more of a stress placed on constantly improving business methods ... as defined by Cantillon is now not ...

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