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ORGANIZATION OF AMERICAN STATES: In 1948, 21 nations of the hemisphere met in Bogota, Colombia, to adopt the Charter of the Organization of American States (OAS). Since then, the OAS has expanded to include the nations of the Caribbean, as well as Canada. Currently, all 35 independent countries of the Americas have ratified the OAS Charter and belong to the Organization. Cuba remains a member, but its government has been excluded from participation in the OAS since 1962. The OAS is the region's premier political forum for multilateral dialogue and action. Among OAS' major goals they work for strengthening freedom of speech and thought as a basic human right, promoting greater participation by civil society in decision-making at all levels of government, improving cooperation to address the problem of illegal drugs and supporting the process to create a Free Trade Area of the Americas.
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Lesson 14: Production | Unit 6: Product Curves
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In this unit, you should have learned about:- The TP curve as the graphical relation between total product values and variable input quantities.
- The AP curve as the graphical relation between average product values and variable input quantities.
- The MP curve as the graphical relation between marginal product values and variable input quantities.
- The connection between the law of diminishing marginal returns and the shapes of the total product, average product, and marginal product curves.
- The three stages of production characterized by the slopes of the total and marginal product curves.
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VARIABLE INPUT An input whose quantity can be changed in the time period under consideration. The most common example of a variable input is labor. Variable inputs provide the means used by a firm to control short-run production. The alternative to variable input is fixed input. A fixed input, like capital, provides the capacity constraint in production. As larger quantities of a variable input, like labor, are added to a fixed input like capital, the variable input becomes less productive, which is the law of diminishing marginal returns.
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The Dow Jones family of stock market price indexes began with a simple average of 11 stock prices in 1884.
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"The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there." -- Leslie Poles Hartley, Writer
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IBEX-35 Stock Index (Spain)
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