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LEGAL CLAIM: Ownership of the physical goods, services, and resources that make up the real side of the economy. Legal claims are a key feature of the paper, or financial side of the economy. Transferring legal claims is the primary method of diverting income from household saving to investment and government borrowing. Legal-claim buyers loan income and legal-claim sellers borrower income.

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Lesson 3: Scarcity | Unit 3: Opportunity Cost Page: 10 of 17

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The pervasive problem of scarcity makes opportunity cost fundamental to life itself and to the study of economics.
  • Economists use the term economic cost to mean opportunity cost. They also just use the term cost.
  • Cost is foregone alternative, not necessarily the amount of money paid. Money is a way to keep score. Money is a good way to measure opportunity cost, but not the only way.Two types of opportunity or economic costs:
  • Explicit opportunity cost: Out-of-pocket or accounting cost that involves a money payment.
  • Implicit opportunity cost: Cost that does not involve a money payment.

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PRICE CEILING

A legally established maximum price that is imposed on a market BELOW the price that otherwise would be achieved in equilibrium. A price ceiling is placed on a market with the goal of keeping the price low, presumably based on the notion that the equilibrium price is too high. If imposed on a competitive market free of market failures, a price ceiling creates a shortage, or excess demand.

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