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ECONOMIC PROFIT: The difference between business revenue and total opportunity cost. This is the revenue received by a business over and above the minimum needed to produce a good. In this sense, economic profit is a sign of inefficiency. If a business receives an economic profit, then society (the buyers) are spending more on a good than society (the resource owners) are giving up to produce the good.
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Lesson 16: Perfect Competition | Unit 1: Price Taker
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A Perfect Market
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- Perfect competition:
- Perfect competition is a market structure characterized by a large number of relatively small firms, each producing the same product, with freedom of entry and exit, and complete knowledge of prices and technology.
- The definition of market structure:
- A market structure is the configuration of a market or industry, especially in terms of the number of firms in the market and the competitiveness of each firm.
- Perfect competition is THE idealized "benchmark" which is used as a measuring stick to evaluate the efficiency of these other three market structures.
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CLOSED ECONOMY An economy that does not engage in international trade or other forms of interaction with other countries. That is, a closed economy neither exports goods and services to, nor imports goods and services from, other economies that make up its foreign sector. It is "closed" to the flow of goods and services into or out of the country. The alternative to a closed economy is an open economy, one that does engage in international trade.
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BLACK DISMALAPOD [What's This?]
Today, you are likely to spend a great deal of time watching the shopping channel seeking to buy either a birthday gift for your mother or a weathervane with a horse on top. Be on the lookout for florescent light bulbs that hum folk songs from the sixties. Your Complete Scope
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Lewis Carroll, the author of Alice in Wonderland, was the pseudonym of Charles Dodgson, an accomplished mathematician and economist.
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"You have to find something that you love enough to be able to take risks, jump over the hurdles and break through the brick walls that are always going to be placed in front of you. If you don't have that kind of feeling for what it is you're doing, you'll stop at the first giant hurdle. " -- George Lucas
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NIPA National Income and Product Accounts
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