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SIGNALLING: The use of low-cost, easy to obtain information about a product or commodity to indicate the quality of a product. Signalling occurs when buyers use features of a commodity or actions by the seller to indicate overall product quality. These signals can be either intended or unintended.
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Lesson 11: Circular Flow | Unit 4: Foreign
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The foreign sector is the fourth and last circular flow sector.- The foreign sector is households, businesses, and governments outside the domestic economy (including other planets).
- Market exchanges are a natural means of addressing the scarcity problem. Mutually beneficial exchanges aren't limited by geographic location or political boundaries.
- Foreign trade, the exchange among buyers and sellers in different nations, is an extension of mutually beneficial exchanges among people of the same country.
- Foreign trade gives us the terms exports and imports.
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MARGINAL UTILITY CURVE A curve illustrating the relation between the marginal utility obtained from consuming an additional unit of good and the quantity of the good consumed. The negative slope of the marginal utility curve reflects the law of diminishing marginal utility. The marginal utility curve also can be used to derived the demand curve.
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A lump of pure gold the size of a matchbox can be flattened into a sheet the size of a tennis court!
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"Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work." -- Peter Drucker, management consultant
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OPEC
Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries
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