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TANGENCY: A geometric condition that occurs when two curves touch at a single point with identical slopes at that point. This condition of tangency surfaces in several different areas of economic analysis, including indifference curve analysis (tangency between an indifference curve and budget line) and monopolistic competition (tangency between demand curve and long-run average cost curve). The tangency between two curves should be contrasted with the condition of intersection, in which two cross at a single point but do not have identical slopes.
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Lesson 3: Scarcity | Unit 2: Resources
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Working Together
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Here's how our four resources work together in the production process:- Land provides the basic raw materials that become the good.
- Labor provides the human efforts that transform the materials into a good. They do the work.
- Capital makes labor's production task easier and more effective. These are the tools.
- Entrepreneurship undertakes the risk of beginning the whole production process and bringing the other three resources together.
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ALLOCATION The process of distributing resources for the production of goods and services, and of distributing goods and services for the satisfaction of wants and needs and human consumption. This allocation process is an essential part of an economy's effort to address the problem of scarcity.
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Today, you are likely to spend a great deal of time visiting every yard sale in a 30-mile radius wanting to buy either a wall poster commemorating yesterday or pink cotton balls. Be on the lookout for bottles of barbeque sauce that act TOO innocent. Your Complete Scope
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One of the largest markets for gold in the United States is the manufacturing of class rings.
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"The road to success is always under construction. " -- Lily Tomlin, Actress
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