Vocabulary
Economic Concepts
Connections to Economics
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What is Information-Based Discrimination?

When someone discriminates because they believe a specific person has poor skills.

100

What is an Incentive?

Anything that may persuade, motivate, or push a person to do a certain action.

100

What are the two types of discrimination commonly found in the business world?

Taste Based and Information Based Discrimination.

200

What is Information Asymmetry?

Situations where an expert uses their informational advantage about something they’re well accustomed with  to make you feel stupid, rushed, cheap, or ignoble.

200

What is an Economic Incentive?

Anything that may persuade, motivate, or push a individual or company to make certain choices that will typically increase the money they gain.

200

How do real estate agents make homes more appealing? 

They may use certain phrases such as "A Nice Neighborhood".

300

Common example of a Lemon.

A vehicle with manufacturing issues.

300

Common example of an Information Asymmetry.

A mechanic or technician.

300

How did the KKK lose their power?

The uprising of the internet or The work of John Brown and Stetson Kennedy.