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Lesson 17: Money | Unit 2: More About Money Page: 8 of 25

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Money is used as a standard of deferred payment, buying now and paying later.
  • A car loan: Borrow money to buy a car today, then pay off the loan with deferred payments into the future.
  • Money as a standard of deferred payment is a direct consequence of the unit of account and store of value functions of money.
  • Money is the standard for current prices and future payments based on those prices.
  • For money to function as a deferred payment, it must retain value.
  • The key to storing value in money is price inflation.
  • Deferred payments need to anticipate future money values based on future inflation.
  • The inflation adjustment is accomplished by through interest rates.

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LONG RUN, MICROECONOMICS

In terms of the microeconomic analysis of production and supply, a period of time in which all inputs under the control of a firm used in the production process are variable. In the long run, labor and capital are variable inputs. The long-run analysis of production reveals the key role played by returns to scale. This is one of four production time periods used in the study of microeconomics. The other three are short run, very long run, and very short run (or market period). The long run is also a time period designation used in the macroeconomic analysis of economic growth and full employment.

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