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DISTRIBUTED CORPORATE PROFITS: More commonly termed dividends, this is the portion of a corporation's after-tax accounting profit that's paid to shareholders or owners. Corporate managers usually try to pay the shareholders some minimum dividend that's comparable to returns from other financial markets--such as the interest on government securities or corporate bonds--to keep the owners from selling off the company's stock. That portion of after-tax accounting profit that's not paid out as dividends is typically invested in capital.
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Lesson 4: Production Possibilities | Unit 3: The Curve
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- How to construct a production possibilities curve using the numbers in a production possibilities schedule.
- How to calculate the slope of a production possibilities curve and how that slope relates to opportunity cost.
- How the law of increasing opportunity cost gives rise to the convex (bowed out) shape of the production possibilities curve.
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SLOPE, SAVING LINE The positive slope of the saving line is also termed the marginal propensity to save (MPS). This slope is greater than zero but less than one, reflecting induced saving and the Keynesian psychological law of consumer behavior that saving increases by less than the increase in income. The slope of the saving line provides the foundation for the slope of the leakages line used in the injections-leakages model. It thus also affects the magnitude of the multiplier process.
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Three-forths of the gold mined each year is used to manufacture jewelry.
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"It's usually the last ounce of effort that tips the scales of success." -- Rick Beneteau
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WAPM
Weak Axiom of Profit Maximization
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