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RESERVATION PRICE: The lowest price at which a supplier is willing to supply any amount of a good. This is usually based on the minimum cost of production. For labor, it's the lowest wage that makes it worthwhile to get up in the morning, miss your favorite daytime television shows, and go to work.
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ASYMMETRIC INFORMATION Information is not equally available to everyone. Asymmetric information results because efficient information search inevitably stops short of compete information. Some people obtain more benefits from information than others, are willing to incur higher search costs, and thus end up knowing more. Or they incur lower information search costs and have easier access to the information. In a market, sellers tend to have more information about the good than buyers. Asymmetric information gives rise to adverse selection, moral hazard, and the principal-agent problem. These problems can be lessened through signalling and screening.
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Today, you are likely to spend a great deal of time at a garage sale seeking to buy either shoe laces for your snow boots or a rim for your spare tire. Be on the lookout for florescent light bulbs that hum folk songs from the sixties. Your Complete Scope
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Approximately three-fourths of the U.S. paper currency in circular contains traces of cocaine.
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"The moment you let avoiding failure become your motivator, you're down the path of inactivity. " -- Roberto Goizueta, Coca-Cola CEO
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WACM Weak Axiom of Cost Minimization
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