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Issues in Economics Today
Issues in Economics Today
Robert Guell, Indiana State University
Taxing the Return on Capital

Key Terms


capital gains  Any profit generated by selling an asset for more than was paid for it.
Gini coefficient  A measure of economic equality ranging from zero to one.
Lorenz curve  A graph that maps the cumulative percentage of populations against the cumulative percentage of another variable like income.




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