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INCREASING OPPORTUNITY COST: The proposition that opportunity cost, the value of foregone production, increases as more of a good is produced. This 'law' is most important to the slope of the production possibilities curve. It generates the convex shape of the curve, making the curve flat at the top and steep at the bottom.
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Lesson 10: Gross Domestic Product | Unit 5: Issues
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The study of gross domestic product is important for at least for two reasons.- First, Scarcity. Real GDP indicates how well the economy is addressing the economic problem of scarcity.
- Second, Stability. Real GDP is a key measurement for analyzing economic instability and business cycles.
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AVERAGE REVENUE, PERFECT COMPETITION The revenue received for selling a good per unit of output sold, found by dividing total revenue by the quantity of output. Average revenue often goes by a simpler and more widely used term... price. For a perfectly competitive firm average revenue is also equal to marginal revenue. Average revenue for a perfectly competitive firm is often depicted by a horizontal average revenue curve.
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Post WWI induced hyperinflation in German in the early 1900s raised prices by 726 million times from 1918 to 1923.
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"If anything terrifies me, I must try to conquer it. " -- Francis Charles Chichester, yachtsman, aviator
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AOQ Average Outgoing Quality
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