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PRICE CEILING: A legally established maximum price. The government is occasionally inclined to keep the price of one good or another from rising too high. Examples include apartments, gasoline, and natural gas. While the goal is invariably a noble one--like keeping stuff affordable for poor people--a price ceiling often does more harm than good. First, it usually creates a shortage, meaning that many of the buyers who being protected against high prices, can't even buy the good. Second, as a consequence of this shortage, a price ceiling is likely to generate a black market where the good is sold illegally above the price ceiling.
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Lesson 14: Production | Unit 4: Long-Run Production
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- An important notion:
- Most firms operate in the short run and long run simultaneously.
- Firms engage in day-to-day production activities -- combining inputs to produce output guided by short-run production principles, especially the law of diminishing marginal returns.
- However, at the same time they are making plans to change any fixed inputs, plans that take time to implement.
- For this reason, the long run is often termed the planning period or planning horizon.
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AGGREGATE MARKET ANALYSIS An investigation of macroeconomic phenomena, including unemployment, inflation, business cycles, and stabilization policies, using the aggregate market interaction between aggregate demand, short-run aggregate supply, and long-run aggregate supply. Aggregate market analysis, also termed AS-AD analysis, has been the primary method of macroeconomic analysis since replacing Keynesian economics in the 1980s. Like most economic analysis, aggregate market analysis employs comparative statics, the technique of comparing the equilibrium after a shock with the equilibrium before a shock.
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Today, you are likely to spend a great deal of time searching for rummage sales looking to buy either a pair of red goulashes with shiny buckles or a handcrafted bird feeder. Be on the lookout for small children selling products door-to-door. Your Complete Scope
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In the late 1800s and early 1900s, almost 2 million children were employed as factory workers.
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"It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult. " -- Seneca, statesman, dramatist, philosopher
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