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LONG-RUN EQUILIBRIUM CONDITIONS: The long-run equilibrium of perfectly competitive industry generates six specific equilibrium conditions, including (1) economic efficiency (P = MC), (2) profit maximization (MR = MC), (3) perfect competition (MR = AR = P), (4) breakeven output (P = AR = ATC), (5) minimum production cost (MC = ATC), and (6) minimum efficient scale (MC = ATC = LRAC = LRMC).

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Lesson 3: Scarcity | Unit 4: College Cost Page: 14 of 17

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  • The opportunity cost of a college education.
  • Why explicit, out-of-pocket payments are only part of the opportunity cost of an education.
  • The importance of implicit opportunity costs, such as foregone earnings or foregone satisfaction, to the total cost of an education.
  • Why some college costs, such as room and board, are not opportunity costs or an education.

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FACTOR SUPPLY

The willingness and ability of scarce resources or factors of production to offer their services for use in productive activities. Factor supply relates price and quantity, specifically, factor supply is the range of factor quantities that are supplied at a range of factor prices. This is one half of the factor market. The other half is factor demand. The factors of production subject to factor supply include any and all of the four scarce resources--labor, capital, land, and entrepreneurship. However, because labor involves human beings directly, it is the factor that tends to receive the most scrutiny and analysis.

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