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TFC: The abbreviation for total fixed cost, which is cost of production that does NOT change with changes in the quantity of output produced by a firm in the short run. Total fixed cost is one part of total cost. The other is total variable cost. At any and all levels of output, fixed cost is the same. It doesn't change. This includes cost that is not dependent on, or unrelated to, production. The best way to identify fixed cost is to produce zero output. Fixed cost is incurred whether or not any output is produced. A cost measure directly related to total fixed cost is average fixed cost.
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Lesson 9: Macro Basics | Unit 3: Business Cycles
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To understand business cycles, we need the causes:- Consumption: If households decide to buy more or less, the rest of the economy follows suit.
- Capital Investment: Big swings can set in motion upward or downward spirals of total production.
- Government Purchases and Taxes: Government purchases can be contractionary or expansionary effect over the economy. Taxes affect the ability of the household and business sectors to buy production.
- Net Exports: Changes in exports can trigger expansions and contractions of the domestic economy.
- Circulating Money: Too much money can trigger and inflationary expansion, too little money can trigger contraction and unemployment.
- Resource Supply Considerations: Resource supply changes (energy prices, technology, wages, etc.) can trigger expansions and contractions.
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FACTOR DEMAND The willingness and ability of productive activities (usually, business firms) to hire or employ factors of production. Factor demand relates factor price and factor quantity, specifically, it is the range of factor quantities that are demanded at a range of factor prices. This is one half of the factor market. The other half is factor supply. The factors of production subject to factor demand include any and all of the four scarce resources--labor, capital, land, and entrepreneurship. However, because labor involves human beings directly, it is the factor that tends to receive the most scrutiny and analysis.
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RED AGGRESSERINE
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Today, you are likely to spend a great deal of time at a crowded estate auction wanting to buy either a pair of red and purple designer socks or a T-shirt commemorating Thor Heyerdahl's Pacific crossing aboard the Kon-Tiki. Be on the lookout for malfunctioning pocket calculators.
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GNP
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