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FACTOR PRICE: The price paid for and received by the services of factor of productions (labor, capital, land, and entrepreneurship) when exchange through factor markets. Like prices in other markets, factor price adjusts to balance the forces of demand and supply. For factor demand and the factor demand curve, the factor price is negatively related to the quantity of factor services demanded. For factor supply and the factor supply curve, factor price is positively related to the quantity of factor services supplied. The key factor prices are wage rates, interest rates, rents, and profits. The rigidity or inflexibility of factor prices is an important aspect of the macroeconomic study of the short-run aggregate market.
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Lesson 1: Economic Basics | Unit 3: The Economy
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A Mixed Economy: The Mix
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A pure market economy and a pure command economy are two theoretical extremes in the allocation of resources. - Real world economies form a continuum bounded by these two extremes. They are mixed economies:
- A mixed economy is one that relies on both markets and government to allocate resources.
- Market-oriented economies, also called capitalism, are mixed economies that lean heavily to the market end.
- Socialism and communism are mixed economies that lean more (a lot more) toward government control.
The mixed U.S. economy leans heavily to the market end of the market-government continuum.
Three indicators of government involvement:- Taxes: Government controls about 1/3 of the revenue generated in the economy each year.
- Spending: Government buys 20% of the goods produced each year.
- Regulations: Government influences many allocation decisions through laws, rules, and other restrictions.
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COLLUSION PRODUCTION ANALYSIS 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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