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particular goods and services. Markets exist in many forms. The gas
station, the fast-food outlet,
the music store, a farmer’s roadside
stand – all are familiar markets. The New York Stock Exchange and
the Chicago Board of Trade are highly organized markets where
buyers and sellers of stocks and bonds from all over the world are
brought into contract with one another. Similarly, auctioneers bring
together potential
buyers and sellers of art, livestock, used farm
equipment, and sometimes real estate. All these situations which
link potential buyers with potential sellers constitute markets. As
our examples show, some markets are local
while others are national
or international. Some are highly personal, involving face-to-face
contract between demander and supplier; others are impersonal
in that buyer and seller never see or know one another.
Let
us look at the functioning of purely competitive markets.
Such markets presume large numbers of independently acting
buyers and sellers interested in exchanging a standardized
product.
These markets are not the music store or gas station where
products have price tags, but competitive markets such as a central
grain exchange,
a stock market, or a market for foreign currencies
where the equilibrium price is «discovered’ by the interacting
decisions of buyers and sellers. Similarly, we know how prices are
established in resource markets by demand decisions of competing
businesses and supply decisions of competing households.
Задание 1. Переведите на русский язык абзацы 3, 5.
Задание 2. Составьте резюме на русском языке.
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Key words:
direct services –
прямые услуги,
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regulation – регулирование,
direct control – прямой контроль,
direct assistance – прямая помощь,
reasonable profit – разумная прибыль,
fair competition –
честная конкуренция,
raise prices «unfairly» – поднимать цены необоснованно,
harmful drugs – вредные лекарства (наркотики),
social insurance program – программа социального страхо-
вания.
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