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PRICE CEILING: A legally established maximum price. The government is occasionally inclined to keep the price of one good or another from rising too high. Examples include apartments, gasoline, and natural gas. While the goal is invariably a noble one--like keeping stuff affordable for poor people--a price ceiling often does more harm than good. First, it usually creates a shortage, meaning that many of the buyers who being protected against high prices, can't even buy the good. Second, as a consequence of this shortage, a price ceiling is likely to generate a black market where the good is sold illegally above the price ceiling.
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Lesson 4: Production Possibilities | Unit 2: The Schedule
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- How a production possibilities schedule is set up to display bundles of two different goods.
- How to work with and interpret a simple production possibilities schedule.
- How and why the production tradeoff between two goods reflects opportunity cost.
- The law of increasing opportunity cost and how it is indicated by increasing negative opportunity cost numbers in the production possibilities schedule.
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CHANGE IN QUANTITY SUPPLIED A movement along a given supply curve caused by a change in supply price. The only factor that can cause a change in quantity supplied is price. A related, but distinct, concept is a change in supply.
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The 1909 Lincoln penny was the first U.S. coin with the likeness of a U.S. President.
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