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TOTAL PHYSICAL PRODUCT: The total quantity of output produced by a firm for a given quantity of inputs. Total physical product is actually nothing more than a fancy term for total product. The additional of the second term physical merely keeps the phrase consistent with average physical product and marginal physical product, two terms useful in marginal productivity theory and the analysis of factor demand. However, average physical product and marginal physical product are really just average product and marginal product.
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Lesson 3: Scarcity | Unit 1: The Concept
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- Scarcity is the pervasive condition that exists because society has unlimited wants and needs, but limited resources used for their satisfaction.
Meaning:- We can't have everything because resources are limited.
Unlimited wants and needs are half of the scarcity problem.- Unlimited wants and needs are what motivate us to take action, to produce goods, and to advance our well-being.
- We are motivated to do things that satisfy these wants and needs. Satisfaction is achieved when wants and needs are fulfilled.
- Scarcity results because wants and needs are unlimited. No one has ever been completely satisfied. We always want more.
Limited resources are the other half of our scarcity problem. - Resources are the stuff that we use to produce the goods that fulfill our wants and needs.
- Resources are the things that make satisfaction possible.
- Resources are limited. We have only so much 'stuff' than can be used to produce the goods that satisfy our wants and needs.
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LONG-RUN AGGREGATE MARKET A macroeconomic model relating the price level and real production under the assumption that ALL prices are flexible. This is one of two aggregate market submodels used to analyze business cycles, gross production, unemployment, inflation, stabilization policies, and related macroeconomic phenomena. The other is the short-run aggregate market. The long-run aggregate market isolates the interaction between aggregate demand and long-run aggregate supply. The key assumption of this model is that ALL prices, especially resource prices, are flexible. The primary result of this model is that the economy achieves long-run equilibrium at full-employment real production.
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Today, you are likely to spend a great deal of time wandering around the downtown area hoping to buy either a wall poster commemorating last Friday (you know why) or a country wreathe. Be on the lookout for defective microphones.
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