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PERFECT COMPETITION, TOTAL ANALYSIS: A perfectly competitive firm produces the profit-maximizing quantity of output that generates the greatest difference between total revenue and total cost. This total approach is one of three methods that used to determine the profit-maximizing quantity of output. The other two methods involve the direct analysis of economic profit or a comparison of marginal revenue and marginal cost.
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Lesson 10: Gross Domestic Product | Unit 1: Measuring Production
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Economists use numerical measurements to indicate the health and well-being of the economy.- Economic diagnosis relies on several indicators.
- Gross domestic product is the most comprehensive measure of the economy's production and one of the most basic measures of the economy's well-being.
- Gross domestic product, as well as other economic measures, are indicators of our economic health.
A GDP Definition:Gross domestic product (GDP) is the total market value of all final goods and services produced in the economy in a given period of time, usually one year. - The goal of GDP is to measure the total production of goods and services produced in the economy each year.
- A larger GDP means that we have more goods and services that can be used to satisfy our unlimited wants and needs.
- The chart presents recent numbers for GDP in the United States.
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BALANCE OF PAYMENTS A comprehensive set of accounts that tracks the flow of currency and other monetary assets coming in to and going out of a nation. These payments are used for international trade, foreign investments, and other financial activities. The balance of payments is divided into two accounts -- current account (which includes payments for imports, exports, services, and transfers) and capital account (which includes payments for physical and financial assets). A deficit in one account is matched by a surplus in the other account. The balance of trade is only one part of the overall balance of payments set of accounts.
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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 coffee cup commemorating last Friday (you know why) or a wall poster commemorating the first day of spring. Be on the lookout for small children selling products door-to-door.
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A half gallon milk jug holds about $50 in pennies.
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"It is not the straining for great things that is most effective; it is the doing of the little things, the common duties, a little better and better." -- Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, Writer
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