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ALLOCATIVE EFFICIENCY: Obtaining the most consumer satisfaction from available resources. Allocative efficiency means that our economy is doing the best job possible of satisfying unlimited wants and needs with limited resources -- that is, of addressing the problem of scarcity.
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Lesson 10: Gross Domestic Product | Unit 1: Measuring Production
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Final Goods and Services
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A second phrase to highlight is 'final goods and services'.- Production generally involves several intermediate steps which involves market exchanges of intermediate goods. GDP measures only the market value of final goods.
- The cost of intermediate goods is already included in the price and thus the market value of finished product when sold to final users.
- To avoid double counting, GDP does not separately include the market value of any intermediate goods.
Final goods are those reaching their final user and include: household consumption, business investment in capital, government purchases, and exports.
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SLOPE, CONSUMPTION LINE The positive slope of the consumption line is also termed the marginal propensity to consume (MPC). This slope is greater than zero but less than one, reflecting induced consumption and the Keynesian psychological law of consumer behavior that consumption increases by less than the increase in income. The slope of the consumption line provides the foundation for the slope of the aggregate expenditures line and thus also affects the magnitude of the multiplier process.
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