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ZONING: Legal restrictions on where different activities can locate within a city. Most cities regulate the location of industrial, commercial, and residential activities. The underlying motivation behind zoning is to keep less desirable, but perhaps more profitable, activities from encroaching upon residential areas.

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Lesson 4: Production Possibilities | Unit 3: The Curve Page: 13 of 24

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  • How to construct a production possibilities curve using the numbers in a production possibilities schedule.
  • How to calculate the slope of a production possibilities curve and how that slope relates to opportunity cost.
  • How the law of increasing opportunity cost gives rise to the convex (bowed out) shape of the production possibilities curve.


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AVERAGE REVENUE, MONOPOLISTIC COMPETITION

The revenue received for selling a good per unit of output sold, found by dividing total revenue by the quantity of output. Average revenue often goes by a simpler and more widely used term... price. For a monopolistically competitive firm average revenue is greater than marginal revenue. Average revenue for a monopolistically competitive firm is often depicted by a negatively-sloped average revenue 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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