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MARGINAL FACTOR COST, PERFECT COMPETITION: The change in total factor cost resulting from a change in the quantity of factor input employed by a perfectly competitive firm. Marginal factor cost, abbreviated MFC, indicates how total factor cost changes with the employment of one more input. It is found by dividing the change in total factor cost by the change in the quantity of input used. Marginal factor cost is compared with marginal revenue product to identify the profit-maximizing quantity of input to hire.

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Lesson 11: Elasticity Basics | Unit 1: The Concept Page: 5 of 25

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In this unit, you should have learned about:
  • Elasticity as the stretchability or responsiveness of one variable to changes in another variable.
  • How elasticity can help the market analysis of taxes and price controls.
  • The definition of elasticity as the percentage change in one variable resulting from a percentage change in another variable.
  • The price elasticity of demand and the price elasticity of supply.

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AGGREGATE EXPENDITURES EQUATION

An equation that summarizes the four aggregate expenditures on gross domestic product by the four macroeconomic sectors. In the study of Keynesian economics, this equation is commonly used to summarize the demand side of the macroeconomy. The aggregate expenditures equation actually comes in three different versions depending on how many of the four sectors and their expenditures are included.

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