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JAWBONING: The use of verbal encouragement or discouragement by political leaders or other influential people to achieve particular results. This term was coined in reference to actions by President Lyndon Johnson in the 1960s. It is essentially an attempt by the President or other influential leaders to change public sentiment and move the economy in a particular direction without implementing or waiting for the results of formal economic policies. This also goes by the term moral suasion.
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Lesson 4: Production Possibilities | Unit 4: Analysis
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- How full employment is represented by any bundle ON the production possibilities curve and unemployment is represented by any bundle INSIDE the production possibilities curve.
- The production possibilities curve as a frontier or boundary that cannot be cross give current quantities and qualities of resources.
- How the process of economic growth expands the production possibilities curve to reach previously unreachable bundles of goods.
- How economic growth is achieved by increasing the quantity or quality of resources.
- Five important sources of economic growth-the quantity of labor, the quantity of capital, the quantity of materials, education, and technology.
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MARGINAL REVENUE CURVE, MONOPOLY A curve that graphically represents the relation between the marginal revenue received by a monopoly for selling its output and the quantity of output sold. Because a monopoly is a price maker and faces a negatively-sloped demand curve, its marginal revenue curve is also negatively sloped and lies below its average revenue (and demand) curve. A monopoly maximizes profit by producing the quantity of output found at the intersection of the marginal revenue curve and marginal cost curve.
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A communal society, a prime component of Karl Marx's communist philosophy, was advocated by the Greek philosophy Plato.
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"A winner is someone who recognizes his God-given talents, works his tail off to develop them into skills, and uses those skills to accomplish his goals. " -- Larry Bird, basketball player
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G-10 Group of Ten
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