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MARGINAL FACTOR COST CURVE, PERFECT COMPETITION: A curve that graphically represents the relation between marginal factor cost incurred by a perfectly competitive firm for hiring an input and the quantity of input employed. A profit-maximizing perfectly competitive firm hires the quantity of input found at the intersection of the marginal factor cost curve and marginal revenue product curve. The marginal factor cost curve for a perfectly competitive firm with no market control is horizontal.
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Lesson 9: Macro Basics | Unit 1: The Macroeconomy
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- The basic definition of an economy, which is an interactive system of production, distribution, and consumption of resources, goods and services.
- The four macroeconomic sectors of and their expenditures on total production: (a) the household sector and consumption, (b) the business sector and investment, (c) the government sector and government purchases, and (d) the foreign sector and net exports.
- The primary economic functions of the household sector, which is consumption, the business sector, which is production, and the government sector, which is regulating economic activity.
- The difference between microeconomics, the study of the parts of the economy, and macroeconomics, the study of the aggregate economy.
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MARGINAL REVENUE PRODUCT AND FACTOR DEMAND A perfectly competitive firm's factor demand curve is that negatively-sloped portion of its marginal revenue product curve. A perfectly competitive firm maximizes profit by hiring the quantity of input that equates factor price and marginal revenue product. As such, the firm moves along its negatively-sloped marginal revenue product curve in response to changing factor prices.
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Today, you are likely to spend a great deal of time strolling through a department store hoping to buy either decorative celebrity figurines or a flower arrangement with anything but tulips for your grandfather. Be on the lookout for infected paper cuts.
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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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ILO
International Labor Office
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