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EFFICIENT: The state of resource allocation the exists when the highest level of consumer satisfaction is achieved from the available resources. Competitive markets, absent of any market failure and especially market control by either side, is efficient. In particular, this feat is accomplished when the price buyers are willing and able to pay for a good--based on the satisfaction obtained--is equal to the price sellers need to charge for a good--based on the opportunity cost of production. In other words, the value (satisfaction) of stuff given up to get a good is the same as the value (satisfaction) of the good produced. Satisfaction won't increase by producing more of either.
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Lesson 4: Production Possibilities | Unit 1: Getting Started
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Let's begin with a definition: Production possibilities is an analysis that shows how much of two goods that our economy can produce given existing resources and technology. Production possibilities analysis is used to... - Answer the 'What?' question of allocation: To answer the "What?", what goods we want to produce depends on what goods the economy is able to produce.
- Understand economic concepts: Some of the key terms we will analyze are opportunity cost, unemployment, full employment, investment, and growth.
- Introduce graphical analysis techniques: This will be our first hands-on work with graphical analysis, a required part of economic study. Graphs, lines, and curves are a handy way of abstracting key relationships and principles from the real world.
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AGGREGATE SUPPLY INCREASE, SHORT-RUN AGGREGATE MARKET A shock to the short-run aggregate market caused by an increase in aggregate supply, resulting in and illustrated by a rightward shift of the short-run aggregate supply curve. An increase in aggregate supply in the short-run aggregate market results in a decrease in the price level and an increase in real production. The level of real production resulting from the shock can be greater or less than full-employment real production.
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Today, you are likely to spend a great deal of time looking for a downtown retail store wanting to buy either a birthday gift for your uncle or a pair of red and purple designer socks. Be on the lookout for fairy dust that tastes like salt.
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Al Capone's business card said he was a used furniture dealer.
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"It's usually the last ounce of effort that tips the scales of success." -- Rick Beneteau
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WLLN
Weak Law of Large Numbers
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