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PERFECT COMPETITION AND SHORT-RUN SUPPLY CURVE: A perfectly competitive firm's supply curve is that portion of its' marginal cost curve that lies above the minimum of the average variable cost curve. A perfectly competitive firm maximizes profit by producing the quantity of output that equates price and marginal cost. As such, the firm moves along it's marginal cost curve in response to alternative prices. Because the marginal cost curve is positively sloped due to the law of diminishing marginal returns, the firm's supply curve is also positively sloped.
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Lesson 10: Gross Domestic Product | Unit 1: Measuring Production
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A second phrase to highlight is 'final goods and services'.- Production generally involves several intermediate steps which involves market exchanges of intermediate goods. GDP measures only the market value of final goods.
- The cost of intermediate goods is already included in the price and thus the market value of finished product when sold to final users.
- To avoid double counting, GDP does not separately include the market value of any intermediate goods.
Final goods are those reaching their final user and include: household consumption, business investment in capital, government purchases, and exports.
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TARIFFS Taxes imposed by the government of one nation on imports from other nations. The primary goal of tariffs is to reduce imports and increase domestic production. As taxes, tariffs raise the demand price and lower the supply price, and thus reduce the quantity exchanged. Tariffs are one of three common foreign trade policies designed to discourage imports and/or encourage exports. The other two are import quotas and export subsidies.
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The 1909 Lincoln penny was the first U.S. coin with the likeness of a U.S. President.
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