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CAPITAL: One of the four basic categories of resources, or factors of production. It includes the manufactured (or previously produced) resources used to manufacture or produce other things. Common examples of capital are the factories, buildings, trucks, tools, machinery, and equipment used by businesses in their productive pursuits. Capital's primary role in the economy is to improve the productivity of labor as it transforms the natural resources of land into wants-and-needs-satisfying goods.
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Lesson 6: Supply | Unit 3: Supply Curve
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A supply schedule can be use to plot a supply curve. - The connected plotted points are called a supply curve.
- A supply curve has a positive slope.
- Higher prices correspond with larger quantities.
- The supply curve embodies the law of supply.
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SCARCE RESOURCES Labor, capital, land, and entrepreneurship used by society to produce consumer satisfying goods and services. Scarce resources, also termed just resources, are often given the more descriptive term factors of production.
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The first paper currency used in North America was pasteboard playing cards "temporarily" authorized as money by the colonial governor of French Canada, awaiting "real money" from France.
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