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TECHNICAL EFFICIENCY: Getting the most production from available resources. This term needs to be contrasted with a similar term allocative efficiency. You might want to check out the more general term of efficiency while you're at it. Technical efficiency simple means that you do the best job possible of combining resources to make a good . You don't waste material inputs. You don't have workers standing idly around waiting for spare parts. In essence, you produce a good at the lower possible opportunity cost.
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Lesson 4: Production Possibilities | Unit 4: Analysis
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- How full employment is represented by any bundle ON the production possibilities curve and unemployment is represented by any bundle INSIDE the production possibilities curve.
- The production possibilities curve as a frontier or boundary that cannot be cross give current quantities and qualities of resources.
- How the process of economic growth expands the production possibilities curve to reach previously unreachable bundles of goods.
- How economic growth is achieved by increasing the quantity or quality of resources.
- Five important sources of economic growth-the quantity of labor, the quantity of capital, the quantity of materials, education, and technology.
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AUTONOMOUS SAVING Household saving that does not depend on income or production (especially disposable income, national income, or even gross domestic product). That is, changes in income do not generate changes in saving. Autonomous saving is best thought of as a baseline level of saving (usually negative) that the household sector undertakes in the unlikely event that income falls to zero. It is measured by the intercept term of the saving function or the saving line. The alternative to autonomous saving is induced saving, which does depend on income.
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