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SCARCE GOOD: A resource with an available quantity less than its desired use. Scarce resources are also called factors of production. Scarce goods are also termed economic goods. Scarce resources are used to produce scarce goods. Like the more general society-wide condition of scarcity, a given resource is scarce because it has a limited availability in combination with a greater (potentially unlimited) productive use. It's both of these that make it scarce. In other words, even though an item is quite limited it will not be a scarce resource if it has few if any uses (think pocket lint and free good).
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Lesson 14: Production | Unit 4: Long-Run Production
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- An important notion:
- Most firms operate in the short run and long run simultaneously.
- Firms engage in day-to-day production activities -- combining inputs to produce output guided by short-run production principles, especially the law of diminishing marginal returns.
- However, at the same time they are making plans to change any fixed inputs, plans that take time to implement.
- For this reason, the long run is often termed the planning period or planning horizon.
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ENTREPRENEURSHIP A special sort of human effort that takes on the risk of bringing labor, capital, and land together and organizing production. This is one of four basic categories of resources, or factors of production. The other three are labor, capital, and land.
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Today, you are likely to spend a great deal of time strolling around a discount warehouse buying club looking to buy either a birthday greeting card for your grandmother or a coffee cup commemorating yesterday. Be on the lookout for infected paper cuts.
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General Electric is the only stock from the original 1896 Dow Jones Industrial Average remaining in the current index.
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