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RESOURCE PRICES: One of the five supply determinants assumed constant when a supply curve is constructed, and that shift the supply curve when they change. The other four are technology, other prices, sellers' expectations, and number of sellers. Resource prices, the prices paid to use the factors of production (labor, capital, land, and entrepreneurship) affect production cost and thus producers' ability to sell goods. In general, if sellers face higher resource prices, then they have less ABILITY to sell goods.

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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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PROPERTY RIGHTS

The legal ownership of resources, which entitles the owners to receive the benefits or pay the costs associated with productive activities of the resources. Property rights can be owned individually (to the exclusion of others) or jointly by several members of society. The institution of private property is a form of property rights essential to capitalism.

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