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URBANIZATION ECONOMIES: A reduction in production cost the results when diverse activities are located in a concentrated urban area. Urbanization economies applied to all types of activities that benefit from assorted urban "amenities" such as public utilities, government services, information services that are inclined to experience decreasing average cost with large scale production. If, for example, a city has sufficient demand for a more efficiency, larger scale electrical generation plant, then everyone can benefit from lower electricity rates.
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Lesson 3: Scarcity | Unit 3: Opportunity Cost
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- The basic concept of opportunity cost as the highest valued alternative foregone in the pursuit of an activity.
- How the fact that limited resources have alternative uses intertwines the notion of opportunity cost and the basic problem of scarcity.
- Why economic cost is synonymous with opportunity cost.
- Why opportunity cost need not be measured in money terms.
- The difference between explicit and implicit opportunity cost.
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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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The portrait on the quarter is a more accurate likeness of George Washington than that on the dollar bill.
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CAP Common Agricultural Policy
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