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WIDGET: A fictitious good commonly used by economic instructors to demonstrate economic principles or undertake hypothetical analyses. For example, the analysis of short-run production for a firm might be demonstrated through the production of widgets. Alternatively, the law of demand might be illustrated with a table or curve comparing the price of widgets with the quantity demanded of widgets. If such a good exists, and there is no clear evidence that widgets have every existed, it is a small mechanical device, constructed of interlocking cogs, several knobs, and at least one handle. Widgets are most often used when thingamajigs and dohickies are unavailable.
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Lesson 8: Market Shocks | Unit 3: Single Shifts
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- The four basic changes in the market caused by increases or decrease in demand or supply.
- The six steps sequence to analyze any market shock: (1) a determinant changes, (2) a curve to shifts, (3) a shortage or a surplus occurs, (4) the price changes, (5) the quantities demanded and supplied change, and (6) the market imbalance is eliminated and equilibrium is restored.
- That an increase in demand causes an increase quantity and an increase in price.
- That a decrease in demand causes a decrease quantity and a decrease in price.
- That an increase in supply causes an increase quantity and a decrease in price.
- That a decrease in supply causes a decrease quantity and an increase in price.
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PEAK The transition of a business-cycle expansion to a business-cycle contraction. The end of an expansion carries this descriptive term of peak, or the highest level of economic reached in recent times. A peak is one of two turning points. The other, the transition from contraction to expansion, is a trough. Turning points are important because they represent the transition from bad to good or good to bad.
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A scripophilist is one who collects rare stock and bond certificates, usually from extinct companies.
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"Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work." -- Peter Drucker, management consultant
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AACT
American Assocation of Commodity Traders
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