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PERFECT COMPETITION, LOSS MINIMIZATION: A perfectly competitive firm is presumed to produce the quantity of output that minimizes economic losses, if price is greater than average variable cost but less than average total cost. This is one of three short-run production alternatives facing a firm. The other two are profit maximization (if price exceeds average total cost) and shutdown (if price is less than average variable cost).
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Lesson 4: Production Possibilities | Unit 3: The Curve
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We can transform the schedule of production possibility numbers into a graph.- Each bundle can be represented by a point in two dimensional production possibilities space.
- The two dimensions of the space are clock calibrators on the horizontal axis and jogging shoes on the vertical axis.
- The horizontal axis is measured between 0 and 11 calibrators.
- The vertical axis is measured between 0 and 500 jogging shoes.
- The two axis are joined at the origin.
- The plotted bundles form a semi-circle pattern.
- If these were stars in the night sky we might name it the arc of production. But it's not, so we won't.
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AGGREGATE SUPPLY SHIFTS Changes in the aggregate supply determinants shift both the short-run aggregate supply curve and the long-run aggregate supply curve. The mechanism is comparable to that for market supply determinants and market supply. There are two options--an increase in aggregate supply and a decrease in aggregate supply. An increase in resource quantity or quality or a decrease in resource price shifts one or both of the aggregate supply curves to right. A decrease in resource quantity or quality or an increase in resource price shifts one or both of the aggregate supply curves to left.
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