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AEA: The abbreviation for, the American Economic Association, an organization of over 25,000 professional economists. Founded in 1885, this premier top-of-the-economic-association-list publishes the prestigious American Economic Review, arguably THE number one scholarly U.S. economic journal and the Journal of Economic Literature, arguably THE number one index of economic journal publications. The AEA, as acronymically inclined economists call it, also sponsors an annual conference where professional economists present scholarly papers on their latest scholarly research.
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Lesson 21: Factor Demand | Unit 2: Derived Demand
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In this unit, you should have learned about:- That factor demand is derived demand, meaning it is derived from the demand for the output produced by the factor.
- A few of the issues that involve the derived demand for a factor include the income of medical doctors versus economic doctors, the salaries of professional athletes, and the farm problem.
- That marginal productivity theory indicates how firms employ resources based on productivity of the input and the value of the output.
- The relation between marginal (physical) product, marginal revenue, and marginal revenue product.
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PERFECT COMPETITION, SHUTDOWN A perfectly competitive firm is presumed to shutdown production and produce no output in the short run, if price is less than average variable cost. This is one of three short-run production alternatives facing a firm. The other two are profit maximization (if price exceeds average total cost) and loss minimization (if price is greater than average variable cost but less than average total cost).
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A thousand years before metal coins were developed, clay tablet "checks" were used as money by the Babylonians.
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TVC Total Variable Cost
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