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BENEFIT-COST RATIO: The benefit of an activity per dollar of cost. Benefit-cost ratios (or alternatively cost-benefit ratios) are frequently estimated for many forms of government spending, as well as a growing number of business investments. This technique was originally developed to determine if public investment projects, like dams, public parks, highways, etc., were worth doing. The logic is simple -- If benefits are greater than costs, then the project is worthwhile, if they are less, then it isn't.
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AVERAGE PROPENSITY TO CONSUME: The proportion of income, usually measured as disposable income or national income, used for household consumption expenditures. It is found by dividing consumption by income. The average propensity to consume, abbreviated APC, most often pops up in discussions of Keynesian economics. The average propensity to consume is the average amount of total household income that is devoted consumption expenditures. For closely related information see marginal propensity to consume, average propensity to save, marginal propensity to save, and consumption function. See also | disposable income | national income | consumption expenditures | household sector | Keynesian economics | marginal propensity to consume | average propensity to save | marginal propensity to save | consumption function | consumption line | Keynesian economics | circular flow |
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MARGINAL REVENUE PRODUCT AND FACTOR DEMAND A perfectly competitive firm's factor demand curve is that negatively-sloped portion of its marginal revenue product curve. A perfectly competitive firm maximizes profit by hiring the quantity of input that equates factor price and marginal revenue product. As such, the firm moves along its negatively-sloped marginal revenue product curve in response to changing factor prices.
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