Tax

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Taxation examines how government taxes affect prices, quantities, economic behavior, and the distribution of burden between buyers and sellers, often creating efficiency losses through deadweight loss.

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1. What Is a Tax?
2. Per-Unit Taxes
3. The Tax Wedge
4. Effects of Taxation on Surplus
5. Taxation and Deadweight Loss
6. Tax Revenue Shifts Surplus
7. The Impact of Elasticity on DWL
8. Make an interactive from the Practice part of Next Level Econ
9. Tax Quiz
10. Philadelphia’s Soda Tax Already Is Facing Threat of Repeal—from Democrats

Additional Market Failure and Strategic Behavior Modules

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Economics Olympiad Prep Modules

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FOUNDATION FOR ECONOMIC EDUCATION

Prepare for the Economics Olympiad Competition

Course curriculum

Tax

Additional Market Failure and Strategic Behavior Modules

Asymmetric Information, Moral Hazard, and Signaling

Price Controls

Oligopoly & Game Theory

Types of Goods

Externalities

Economics Olympiad Prep Modules