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RESOURCE MARKETS: Market used to exchange the services of resources labor, capital, and natural resources. The value of services exchanged through resource markets each year is measured as national income. Compare financial market, product market.

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Lesson 9: Macro Basics | Unit 3: Business Cycles Page: 9 of 16

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To understand business cycles, we need the causes:
  1. Consumption: If households decide to buy more or less, the rest of the economy follows suit.
  2. Capital Investment: Big swings can set in motion upward or downward spirals of total production.
  3. Government Purchases and Taxes: Government purchases can be contractionary or expansionary effect over the economy. Taxes affect the ability of the household and business sectors to buy production.
  4. Net Exports: Changes in exports can trigger expansions and contractions of the domestic economy.
  5. Circulating Money: Too much money can trigger and inflationary expansion, too little money can trigger contraction and unemployment.
  6. Resource Supply Considerations: Resource supply changes (energy prices, technology, wages, etc.) can trigger expansions and contractions.

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PERFECT COMPETITION, SHORT-RUN SUPPLY CURVE

A perfectly competitive firm's supply curve is that portion of its marginal cost curve that lies above the minimum of the average variable cost curve. A perfectly competitive firm maximizes profit by producing the quantity of output that equates price and marginal cost. As such, the firm moves along its positively-sloped marginal cost curve in response to changing prices.

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The portion of aggregate output U.S. citizens pay in taxes (30%) is less than the other six leading industrialized nations -- Britain, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, or Japan.
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