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MARGINAL REVENUE, MONOPOLY: The change in total revenue received by a monopoly resulting from a change in the quantity of output sold. For a monopoly firm, marginal revenue is less than the price.
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Lesson 9: Macro Basics | Unit 4: Policies
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People can take different views of government and economic polices that depend on political philosophies.- Liberal Democrat: The view that government is the only way to keep the economy running smoothly, using paternalistic, hands-on policies. If a problem arises, then government is the answer.
- Conservative Republican: The view that government is the problem, not the solution. The best government is the least government because it is a tyrannical oppressor of individual rights and freedoms.
- One view or the other is usually the basis of an economic policy.
The government can be the solution and it can be the problem.
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KINKED-DEMAND CURVE A demand curve with two distinct segments which have different elasticities that join to form a corner or kink. The primary use of the kinked-demand curve is to explain price rigidity in oligopoly. The two segments are: (1) a relatively more elastic segment for price increases and (2) a relatively less elastic segment for price decreases. The relative elasticities of these two segments is based on the interdependent decision-making of oligopolistic firms.
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During the American Revolution, the price of corn rose 10,000 percent, the price of wheat 14,000 percent, the price of flour 15,000 percent, and the price of beef 33,000 percent.
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