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PERFECT COMPETITION, SHORT-RUN PRODUCTION ANALYSIS: A perfectly competitive firm produces the profit-maximizing quantity of output that equates marginal revenue and marginal cost. This production level can be identified using total revenue and cost, marginal revenue and cost, or profit. Because a perfectly competitive firm faces a perfectly elastic demand curve, it efficiently allocates resources by equating price and marginal cost. In addition, the marginal cost curve above the average variable cost curve is the perfectly competitive firm's short-run supply curve.
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Lesson 12: Business Cycles | Unit 1: Instability
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Contractionary Bad Times
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Contractionary bad times give us the most problems.- First: Real GDP declines during a contraction. This means less production for the four sectors to buy.
- Second: Unemployment increases. Resources, especially labor, produce less and receive less income. 3-5 million workers newly employed.
- Third: The incomes of employed resources also tend to fall, or at least not rise as much as an expansion.
- Fourth: Business profits decline and bankruptcies increase.
- Fifth: Social problems, including crime, poverty, and alcoholism, worsen.
But contractions have some good:- Inflation remains low or declines.
- Some resources are more efficiently allocated.
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FALLACY OF COMPOSITION The logical fallacy of arguing that what is true for the parts is also true for the whole. In the study of economics, this takes the form of assuming that what works for parts of the economy, such as households or businesses, also works for the aggregate, or macroeconomy. The contrasting fallacy is the fallacy of division.
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