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HOTELLING'S PARADOX: A principle stating that monopolistically competitive firms seek to maintain similarities between products at the same time they maintain differences. Similarities enable substitutability. That is, one firm can attract the buyers away from other firms. Differences enable uniqueness and market control. That is, a firm has a small monopoly for its product that allows it to charge a higher price than achieved with perfect competition. This is also termed the principle of minimum differences.
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MARGINAL UTILITY AND DEMAND An explanation of the law of demand and the negatively-sloped demand curve based on utility analysis and the law of diminishing marginal utility. The law of diminishing marginal utility states that marginal utility declines as consumption increases. Because demand price depends on the marginal utility obtained from a good, price also declines as consumption increases, meaning price and quantity demanded are inversely related, which is the law of demand.
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Today, you are likely to spend a great deal of time wandering around the shopping mall wanting to buy either a birthday gift for your grandmother or a T-shirt commemorating yesterday. Be on the lookout for spoiled cheese hiding under your bed hatching conspiracies against humanity.
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Lombard Street is London's equivalent of New York's Wall Street.
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"Success is going from failure to failure without a loss of enthusiasm. " -- Winston Churchill, British statesman
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