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Young Alasdair Loves Lollipops and Hates Oatmeal

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Young Alasdair loves lollipops and hates oatmeal. To induce him to eat enough oatmeal and to restrain him from eating too many lollipops, his mum pays him 10 pence for every quart of oatmeal that he eats. The only way that he can get lollipops is to buy them at the sweet shop, where lollipops cost 5 pence each. Besides what he earns from eating oatmeal, Alasdair gets an allowance of 10 pence per week. If Alasdair consumes only oatmeal and lollipops and if his consumption bundles are graphed with quarts of oatmeal on the horizontal axis and lollipops on the vertical axis, then Alasdair's budget line has a slope

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Elastic

A characteristic of a good or service with demand or supply that is sensitive to changes in price, meaning the quantity demanded or supplied changes significantly.

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Reductions in the amount of taxes imposed by a government, often aimed at stimulating economic growth by increasing disposable income or encouraging investment.

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The overall time period that workers consent to and can offer to work, in exchange for an established rate of pay.