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WELFARE ECONOMICS: A branch of economics that studies efficiency and the overall well-being of society based on alternative allocations of scarce resources. Welfare economics extends the microeconomic analysis of indifference curves to society as a whole. It is concerned with broad efficiency questions and criteria (Pareto efficiency and Kaldor-Hicks efficiency) as well as more specific efficiency issues (market failures, externalities, public goods).

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Lesson 7: Market | Unit 4: Adjustment Page: 15 of 22

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A surplus exists if the quantity demanded is less than the quantity supplied at the current market price.
  • A surplus exists if the market price is 70 cents.
  • The quantity demanded is 200 tapes and the quantity supplied is 600 tapes, giving a surplus of 400 tapes.
  • This surplus induces the price to decline down to the equilibrium level of 50 cents

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MARGINAL RETURNS

The change in the quantity of total product resulting from a unit change in a variable input, holding all other inputs fixed. Marginal returns is an older and more generic term for marginal product. While marginal product has largely replaced marginal returns in most discussions of short-run production, the phrase does persist in a few terms like the law of diminishing marginal returns.

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