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ABSOLUTE ADVANTAGE: The general ability to produced more goods using fewer resources. This idea of absolute advantage is important for trading that occurs between both people and nations. A nation can get an absolute advantage from an advanced level of technology or higher quality resources. For a person, an absolute advantage can result from natural abilities or the acquisition of human capital (education, training, or experience).
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Lesson 4: Production Possibilities | Unit 5: Investment
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- Investment as the fundamental process of giving up current consumption to achieve greater productivity in the future.
- How the tradeoff between consumption and capital is illustrated by a movement along the production possibilities curve.
- How the sacrifice of more current consumption to produce more capital leads to a greater outward shift in the production possibilities curve.
- The importance of economic growth resulting from investment in addressing the fundamental problem of scarcity.
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AUTONOMOUS INVESTMENT Business investment expenditures that do not depend on income or production (especially national income or even gross domestic product). That is, changes in income do not generate changes in investment. Autonomous investment is best thought of as investment that the business sector undertakes regardless of the state of the economy. It is measured by the intercept term of the investment line. The alternative to autonomous investment is induced investment, which does depend on income.
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