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Standard 13a

Essential Understandings: The government promotes and regulates marketplace competition.

Essential Questions: How does the United States government promote and regulate marketplace competition?

Vocabulary: antitrust legislation, monopoly, FCC, EPA, FTC

Which Which fundamental fundamental

political principle political principle means that we means that we elect people to elect people to

write laws and run write laws and run the government for the government for

us?us?

In economics, what do we

call that that which is which is given up given up when a when a

choice is choice is mademade??

What is the What is the economic term economic term that refers to that refers to

earnings after all earnings after all expenses have expenses have

been paid?been paid?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A5oyxIbc8bo

Ways the Government Promotes Marketplace Competition

• Enforcing antitrust legislation to discourage the development of monopolies

• Engaging in global trade

• Supporting business start-ups

Government Agencies that Regulate Business

FCC: Federal Communications Commission

The Federal Communications Commission regulates interstate and international communications by radio, television, wire, satellite and cable in all 50 states, the District of Columbia and U.S. territories.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sNY82N8sxQA

EPA: Environmental Protection Agency

The United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) implements federal laws designed to promote public health by protecting our Nation's air, water, and soil from harmful pollution.

FTC: Federal Trade Commission

To prevent business practices that are anticompetitive or deceptive or unfair to consumers; to enhance informed consumer choice and public understanding of the competitive process; and to accomplish this without unduly burdening legitimate business activity.

While watching the following video, color each of the agencies we learned

about today – the EPA, FTC, and FCC. Put this on

the left side of notebook.

Government Regulation Video

26 Minutes

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