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FARM PROBLEM: The short-run situation in which weather variability creates large fluctuations in farm prices, combined with the long-run situation in which technological advances increase production capabilities even though the demand for agricultural production declines relative to the growth of the overall economy. Taken together these two situations lead to highly unstable farm incomes that tend to decline over time. The solution to this problem has been significant government intervention in the agricultural industry, especially through assorted subsidies and price floors.
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Lesson 13: The Firm | Unit 1: Introduction
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Doing Production
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- The primary function of any firm is to combine labor, capital, land, and entrepreneurship inputs into the production of output:
- Production: Our immediate attention is directed toward the production activity, the output produced and supplied by the firm.
- Resource Inputs: To produce a valuable output, a firm needs resources -- labor, capital, land, and entrepreneurship.
- All of these business firms have one thing in common -- the transformation of resources into valuable output that is then supplied to a market.
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CONSERVATIVE A political view that favors--(1) limited government intervention in the economy, (2) extensive reliance on markets, (3) strong national defense, (4) protection and promotion of existing cultural ideals and beliefs, and (5) economic rewards predominately based on productive efforts.
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Today, you are likely to spend a great deal of time at a crowded estate auction seeking to buy either an instructional DVD on learning to the play the oboe or a small, foam rubber football. Be on the lookout for malfunctioning pocket calculators. Your Complete Scope
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During the American Revolution, the price of corn rose 10,000 percent, the price of wheat 14,000 percent, the price of flour 15,000 percent, and the price of beef 33,000 percent.
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"To sit back and let fate play its hand out, and never influence it, is not the way man was meant to operate." -- John Glenn, astronaut, U.S. senator
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