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BUSINESS INVENTORIES: Stocks of finished products, intermediate goods, raw materials, and other inputs that businesses have on hand. One big reason to keep inventories is to maintain a continuous stream of production by avoiding any supply shortages. Another big reason is to avoid the loss of sales because finished products are unavailable when a customer is ready, willing, and able to buy.
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Lesson 2: Economic Science | Unit 3: Verification
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Ceteris Paribus Assumption: In order to test an hypothesis we need to keep constant other factors that may affect it. Other things are called ceteris paribus factors. The last step in the process is to evaluate the hypothesis. We have two possibilities-data and hypothesis agree-- data and hypothesis don't agree. The data and hypothesis agree. - Because we can not prove an absolute, this possibility gives us support for the hypothesis, but not absolute proof that it is correct.
- To get a proof, we need to test the hypothesis many times under several different conditions. But even then, we can not be 100%, absolutely certain.
- With growing certainty of the validity of the hypothesis, it becomes a principle and is added to the theory for an expanded theory.
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MARGINAL FACTOR COST, MONOPSONY The change in total factor cost resulting from a change in the quantity of factor input employed by a monopsony. Marginal factor cost, abbreviated MFC, indicates how total factor cost changes with the employment of one more input. It is found by dividing the change in total factor cost by the change in the quantity of input used. Marginal factor cost is compared with marginal revenue product to identify the profit-maximizing quantity of input to hire.
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Today, you are likely to spend a great deal of time touring the new suburban shopping complex looking to buy either a how-to book on home decorating or a set of luggage with wheels. Be on the lookout for the happiest person in the room.
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