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RATIONAL BEHAVIOR: The notion that people make decisions based on the desire to obtain the greatest amount of satisfaction. Rational behavior essential means that people prefer more to less. The presumption of rational behavior underlies most economic analyses, especially those applied to consumer demand theory.
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LABOR: One of the four basic categories of resources, or factors of production (the other three are capital, land, and entrepreneurship). Labor is the services and efforts of humans that are used for production. While labor is commonly thought of as those who work in factories, it includes all human efforts (except entrepreneurship), such as those provided by clerical workers, technicians, professionals, managers, and even company presidents. See also | resources | factors of production | capital | land | entrepreneurship | human capital | education | production | labor market | labor force | unemployment |  Recommended Citation:LABOR, AmosWEB GLOSS*arama, http://www.AmosWEB.com, AmosWEB LLC, 2000-2018. [Accessed: April 25, 2018]. AmosWEB Encyclonomic WEB*pedia:Additional information on this term can be found at: WEB*pedia: labor
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INFORMATION SEARCH The decision to seek out or produce information based on a comparison of the cost of acquiring the information and the benefit obtained from the information. Efficient information search is achieved with a equality between the marginal cost of search and the marginal benefit of search. Because the marginal cost of search is invariably greater than zero, search effort stops short of acquiring complete information.
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The average bank teller loses about $250 every year.
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"The greatest things ever done on Earth have been done little by little. " -- William Jennings Bryan
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ARMA Autoregressive Moving Average
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