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AFL: The abbreviation for the American Federation of Labor, which started as a collection of craft unions in 1886, this is now one half of the umbrella organization for labor unions in the United States (the AFL part of AFL-CIO). As a collection of craft unions, the AFL primarily represented skilled workers in particular occupations. However, it also contained unions representing unskilled industrial workers, which led to a rift among AFL members in 1938 and spawned the formation of the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO). This rift was closed in 1955, when both joined together to form the AFL-CIO, which is the primary advocate for workers and labor unions in the United States.
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Lesson 23: Factor Market Equilibrium | Unit 4: Monopsony
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- A definition of monopsony:
- Monopsony is a market structure characterized by a single buyer.
- The key characteristics of monopsony are:
- Only Buyer
- Entry Barriers
- Limited Substitutes
- These characteristics of monopsony lead to two important features:
- Supply Curve
- Marginal Factor Cost
- The positively-sloped factor supply curve facing the firm and the corresponding marginal factor cost curve are illustrated in this diagram.
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AVERAGE TOTAL COST CURVE A curve that graphically represents the relation between average total cost incurred by a firm in the short-run product of a good or service and the quantity produced. The average total cost curve is constructed to capture the relation between average total cost and the level of output, holding other variables, like technology and resource prices, constant. The average total cost curve is one of three average curves. The other two are average variable cost curve and average fixed cost curve. A related curve is the marginal cost curve.
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The 22.6% decline in stock prices on October 19, 1987 was larger than the infamous 12.8% decline on October 29, 1929.
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DCF Discounted Cash Flow
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