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APPRECIATION: A more or less permanent increase in value or price. "More or less permanent" doesn't include temporary, short-term jumps in price that are common in many markets. Appreciation is only those price increases that reflect greater consumer satisfaction and thus value. While all sorts of stuff can appreciate in value, some of the more common ones are real estate, works of art, corporate stock, and money. In particular, the appreciation of a nation's money is seen by an increase in the exchange rate caused by a growing, expanding, and healthy economy.

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Lesson 4: Production Possibilities | Unit 2: The Schedule Page: 5 of 24

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This is a simple, hypothetical production possibilities schedule for the economy.
  • The economy is using all resources with given technology to efficiently produce two goods, jogging shoes and quartz clock calibrators.
  • Bundles A through K represent production alternatives for the economy, such as bundle D with 3 calibrators and 425 pairs of shoes. We have unlimited possibilities using available resources and technology to the fullest extent.
  • All shoes, no calibrators, bundle A.
  • All calibrators, no shoes, bundle K.
  • Some of each good, bundles E or J.
  • How about 9 calibrators and 410 pairs of shoes? No! Each bundle is the maximum we can produce.

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RATIONAL IGNORANCE

The decision NOT to become informed about a topic (such as what a political candidate wants to do) because the cost of acquiring the information is more than the expected benefit. The rational decision to remain ignorant about a subject is a straightforward application of utility maximization and along with the related notion of rational abstention, is a source of voter apathy and government inefficiency.

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Today, you are likely to spend a great deal of time wandering around the shopping mall wanting to buy either 500 feet of coaxial cable or a coffee cup commemorating the 1960 Presidential election. Be on the lookout for spoiled cheese hiding under your bed hatching conspiracies against humanity.
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Parker Brothers, the folks who produce the Monopoly board game, prints more Monopoly money each year than real currency printed by the U.S. government.
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