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ELASTICITY ALTERNATIVES, SUPPLY: The price elasticity of supply can fall into one of five categories--perfectly elastic, relatively elastic, unit elastic, relatively inelastic, and perfectly inelastic--based on the coefficient of elasticity. This table summarizes the five alternatives. These five elasticity alternatives form a continuum ranging from perfectly elastic at one end to perfectly inelastic at the other. The "middle" of this continuum is occupied by unit elastic. in that the "unit" and the two "perfectly" are really borders, boundaries, and endpoints, most of the real world action involving the price elasticity of supply takes place in the two "relatively" alternatives--relatively elastic and relatively inelastic.
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Lesson 1: Economic Basics | Unit 5: Policies
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Several problems prevent market deficiencies from being efficiently corrected by government action. Government imperfections: - Voter Apathy: When people don't vote, leaders don't know what the public really wants.
- Special Interest Groups: Those with influence, can adversely affect government policies.
- Re-election Minded Politicians: Leaders who please only a few, won't represent everyone.
- Complex Bureaucracies: Complexity keeps public workers from being responsible for their actions.
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AVERAGE REVENUE CURVE, PERFECT COMPETITION A curve that graphically represents the relation between average revenue received by a perfectly competitive firm for selling its output and the quantity of output sold. Because average revenue is essentially the price of a good, the average revenue curve is also the demand curve for a perfectly competitive firm's output.
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In the late 1800s and early 1900s, almost 2 million children were employed as factory workers.
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"Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work." -- Peter Drucker, management consultant
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CARIFTA Caribbean Free Trade Association
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