UNC PLCY 110 Questions and Answers(A+ Solution guide)

a country that can produce more of a good in a given time frame has the ______________ in the production of that good - Absolute advantage global warming caused by humans, this is the primary cause of climate change as agreed on by the majority of scientists - Anthropogenic global warming an image or example that comes to mind easily because of mass portrayal in the media or widespread awareness of the issue; example- we are more likely to see terrorism than lightning strikes as a threat to safety because of the recent focus on terrorism - Availability heuristic government puts a cap on pollution production with permits, the companies can trade these permits so that companies can profit off their pollution production - Cap and Trade set out the security council's power to maintain peace - Chapter VII of the UN Charter are non excludible but are exhaustible - Common pool resources a country has the ______________________ in the goods it has the lowest opportunity cost in - Comparative advantage redistribution of wealth to take from the "winners" and give to the "losers"; shift in taxes/policies; difficult because people who gain don't want to share - compensation principle positive or negative effects on a third party by an action; not included in the cost of production; ex: pollution - Externalities human rights to hold a job, make a fair income ect. and receive welfare benefits - economic rights goods are privately owned- they are not free to the public for use ex: cable TV - Excludablegoods are exhaustible or cannot be used by everyone without being used up - rival benefit from externalities without contributing - Free riders actions intended to destroy in whole or in part members of a social or religious group - Genocide the process of chemicals getting trapped in the atmosphere and heating the planet - Greenhouse effect The skills, knowledge, and experience that humans have that gives them value to their community - Human capital allowed amnesty to 2.3 undocumented Mexicans and allowed them to apply for permanent residency to work; also provided new resources for boarder patrol and created sanctions for employers hiring undocumented immigrants - IRCA86 a type of time inconsistency where people discount the effects of their actions by saying another generation can deal with them - Intergenerational discounting work in the houses of their employers; hard to regulate and get fair treatment because of the nature of the work they are doing there is no signed contract - Migrant domestic workers the ways that the UN protects it treaties; this is the biggest barrier to UN actions bc they have no set organization for monitoring or enforcing - Monitoring and Enforcement the belief that rebel groups with act out to get UN aid; groups will provoke the government in order to get protection - Moral Hazard eased restrictions on trade to become more export-oriented instead of focusing on import subsidization, decreased tariffs and got rid of all other barriers to trade - NAFTAmethod of enforcing UN treaties by calling out countries that break the rules-shame them into correcting themselves - Naming and Shaming foreign aid given by countries to help developing countries - Official Development Assistance opportunity cost is what a country has to give up in order to produce a good - Opportunity costs involves combat or the use or violence not in self defense; does not require consent for intervention - Peace enforcement has consent; no violence unless in self-defense - Peacekeeping