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PERFECT COMPETITION, LOSS MINIMIZATION: A perfectly competitive firm is presumed to produce the quantity of output that minimizes economic losses, if price is greater than average variable cost but less than average total cost. This is one of three short-run production alternatives facing a firm. The other two are profit maximization (if price exceeds average total cost) and shutdown (if price is less than average variable cost).
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Lesson 11: Elasticity Basics | Unit 2: A Little More
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- How much price and quantity changes, however, depends on elasticity.
- Demand Changes, Elastic Supply: With elastic supply any change in demand results in relatively large changes in quantity, but relatively small changes in price.
- Demand Changes, Inelastic Supply: With inelastic supply any change in demand results in relatively small changes in quantity, but relatively large changes in price.
- Supply Changes, Elastic Demand: With elastic demand any change in supply results in relatively large changes in quantity, but relatively small changes in price.
- Supply Changes, Inelastic Demand: With inelastic demand any change in supply results in relatively small changes in quantity, but relatively large changes in price.
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PRICE MAKER A buyer or seller that possess sufficient market control to affect the price of the good. From the selling side of the market, a monopoly is the best example of a price maker. From the buying side of the market, a monopsony is also a price maker. This is one of two alternatives related to control over price. The other is price taker. Price maker is also termed price setter.
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A communal society, a prime component of Karl Marx's communist philosophy, was advocated by the Greek philosophy Plato.
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"When you play, play hard; when you work, don't play at all. " -- Theodore Roosevelt, 26th US president
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VC
Variable Cost
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