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NONDURABLE GOODS, CONSUMPTION: Personal consumption expenditures on tangible goods that tend to last for less than a year. Common examples are food, clothing, and gasoline. This is one of three categories of personal consumption expenditures in the National Income and Product Accounts maintained by the Bureau of Economic Analysis. The other two are durable goods and services. Nondurable goods are about 30% of personal consumption expenditures and 20% of gross domestic product.

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Lesson 12: Elasticity and Demand | Unit 3: Measurement Page: 11 of 25

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  • A quick and dirty estimation of elasticity for a price increase from 10 cents to 11 cents is - 1.

  • An estimate of elasticity using the midpoint formula, however, results in a value of - 1.105.

  • This difference makes me wonder what's going on?

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  • The price elasticity of demand (ignoring the negative sign) is small for a low price and large quantity, then increases as the price rises and quantity declines.

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SCARCE RESOURCES

Labor, capital, land, and entrepreneurship used by society to produce consumer satisfying goods and services. Scarce resources, also termed just resources, are often given the more descriptive term factors of production.

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