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SCARCITY RENT: The marginal opportunity cost imposed on future generations by extracting one more unit of a resource today. Scarcity rent is one of two costs the extraction of a finite resource imposes on society. The other is marginal extraction cost--the opportunity cost of resources employed in the extraction activity. Scarcity rent is the cost of "using up" a finite resource because benefits of the extracted resource are unavailable to future generations. Efficiency is achieved when the resource price--the benefit society is willing to pay for the resource today--is equal to the sum of marginal extraction cost and scarcity rent.
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Unit 1: Background |
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Unit 2: Resources |
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Unit 3: Factor Supply |
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Unit 4: Determinants |
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Factor Supply
- The first unit of this lesson, Background, begins by laying the foundation for factor markets and factor supply.
- In the second unit, Resources, we examine specific supply considerations for the alternative factors of production.
- The third unit, Cost And Supply, then takes a look at the three key factor cost concepts -- total, average, and marginal.
- In the fourth unit, Determinants, we examine the key determinants that shift the factor supply curve, especially mobility.
- The fifth and final unit, Taking Stock, then closes this lesson with a review of factor supply and a preview of factor market analysis to come.
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KINKED-DEMAND CURVE A demand curve with two distinct segments which have different elasticities that join to form a corner or kink. The primary use of the kinked-demand curve is to explain price rigidity in oligopoly. The two segments are: (1) a relatively more elastic segment for price increases and (2) a relatively less elastic segment for price decreases. The relative elasticities of these two segments is based on the interdependent decision-making of oligopolistic firms.
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