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WEIGHT GAINING: An activity in which the transportation cost of the output is greater than the transportation cost of the inputs. Using the term weight to mean transportation cost, an activity is said to gain weight if the cost of moving the output to the market is greater than the cost of getting the inputs to the factory. A weight-gaining activity has a greater attraction to, and tends to locate near, the market for the output.
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Lesson 4: Production Possibilities | Unit 2: The Schedule
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Opportunity cost is greater as we produce more calibrators. Why?- The law of increasing opportunity cost which says that the opportunity cost of producing a good increases as more and more of the good is produced.
- Third rule of inequality. All resources are not equally suited to produce all goods.
- First calibrator (A to B) uses resources best suited for calibrators and least suited for shoes.
- Tenth calibrator (J to K) uses resources least suited for calibrators and best suited for shoes.
- As more of a good is produced and supplied, opportunity cost increases.
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PRICE INDEX A measure of the average of a group of prices calculated as a ratio to prices in a given time period (that is, a base year). A price index is primarily used to compare relative prices, or changes in the group prices over time. Such an index is a handy indicator of overall price trends. Two common price indexes that surface in the study of macroeconomics are the Consumer Price Index (CPI) and the GDP price deflator. Both are used to indicate the macroeconomy's average price level and to estimate the inflation rate. The Dow Jones Industrial Average (the Dow), Standard & Poor's 500, and the NASDAQ are well-known indexes of stock market prices.
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