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PER UNIT TAX: A tax that is specified as a fixed amount for each unit of a good sold. Federal excise taxes on gasoline and cigarettes fall into this per unit tax category.
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Lesson 1: Economic Basics | Unit 1: Economics
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Economics: A social science that studies the allocation of scarce resources used to produce goods and services that satisfy consumers' unlimited wants and needs.Key points in the study of economics: - Social Science: Economics uses the scientific method to explain and study our society.
- Allocation: Economics studies allocation decisions about distributing resources, goods and services.
- Scarce Resources: The economy's resources are limited relative to their use.
- Production: We transform available resources into goods and services. That's production.
- Consumption: The goods and services produced are used to satisfy wants and needs. That's consumption.
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MARGINAL FACTOR COST CURVE, PERFECT COMPETITION A curve that graphically represents the relation between marginal factor cost incurred by a perfectly competitive firm for hiring an input and the quantity of input employed. A profit-maximizing perfectly competitive firm hires the quantity of input found at the intersection of the marginal factor cost curve and marginal revenue product curve. The marginal factor cost curve for a perfectly competitive firm with no market control is horizontal.
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Today, you are likely to spend a great deal of time at a crowded estate auction hoping to buy either a T-shirt commemorating yesterday or a pair of handcrafted oven mitts. Be on the lookout for fairy dust that tastes like salt.
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John Maynard Keynes was born the same year Karl Marx died.
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"Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand. The sun's rays do not burn until brought to a focus." -- Alexander Graham Bell, inventor
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LWOP
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