There are 178 entries in the GLOSS*arama starting with the letter P.

Entries 1 through 35:

• p-e ratio
• packaging
• paper currency
• paper economy
• par value
• paradox of thrift
• Pareto efficiency
• Pareto improvement
• part-time workers
• partnership
• patent
• paternalism
• payment flow
• payroll tax
• peak
• per unit tax
• perception
• perfect competition
• perfect competition and demand
• perfect competition and efficiency
• perfect competition and short-run supply curve
• perfect competition characteristics
• perfect competition, factor market analysis
• perfect competition, long-run adjustment
• perfect competition, long-run equilibrium conditions
• perfect competition, long-run production analysis
• perfect competition, loss minimization
• perfect competition, marginal analysis
• perfect competition, profit analysis
• perfect competition, profit maximization
• perfect competition, realism
• perfect competition, revenue division
• perfect competition, short-run production analysis
• perfect competition, shutdown
• perfect competition, total analysis

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To avoid competition, oligopolistic firms are occasionally inclined to cooperate through collusion. Collusion occurs when two or more oligopolistic firms jointly agree to control market prices and quantity and to generally act like a monopoly. Colluding firms set a price and produce a quantity that maximizes industry-wide economic profit, the same price and quantity that would be selected by a profit-maximizing monopoly. Once the industry-wide price and production are determined, each individual firm produces the quantity of output that equates the marginal cost of the firm to the marginal revenue for the industry.

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One of Shady Valley's featured factories is Mona Mallard's Duct Tape Industries. It's the world's leading producer of duct tape -- that shiny, seemingly omnipresent, cloth-like tape that's used for everything EXCEPT ventilation ducts. Mona Mallard's Duct Tape Industries also employs thousands of voting, taxpaying Shady Valley residents. The amount of campaign money, legal and otherwise, contributed by Mona Mallard herself to Shady Valley politicians is, well, incalculable. All of this means that our little pedestrian exploration through the backlot dumping ground of Mona Mallard's Duct Tape Industries main production plant puts us on very, VERY sensitive turf. The reason, of course, is that the duct tape plant has been discarding sticky, toxic, gooey junk onto the ground. This is a potentially hazardous situation, not only because this sticky, toxic, gooey junk appears to be leaking into the Shady Valley River, but because a Mona Mallard's Duct Tape Industries security guard is headed in our direction. Rather than confront this guard, I suggest we spend our time exploring the problems of pollution. RUN!
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