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PARETO EFFICIENCY: A type of efficiency that results if one person can not be made better off without making someone else worse off. Named after Vilfredo Pareto, this criterion is the guiding theoretical notion of efficiency used in the study of economics, especially welfare economics. Pareto efficiency is generally not attained if some resources are idle or unemployed. By engaging idle resources in production, some people can have more production without reducing that available to others. A problem with Pareto efficiency, however, is that it is based on the existing distribution of income and wealth. This is one of two noted efficiency criteria used in economics. The other is Kaldor-Hicks efficiency.
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Lesson 16: Perfect Competition | Unit 3: Doing Graphs
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- Total Revenue: The first curve to note is the total revenue curve, labeled TR. The reason is that it is a straight line.
- Total Cost: The second curve is the total cost curve, labeled TC.
- The shape of the total cost curve reflects the principles of short-run production.
Profit is the difference between total revenue and total cost, which is visually seen as the vertical distance between the two curves. The breakeven output.Breakeven output is the quantity of output in which the total revenue is equal to total cost such that a firm earns exactly a normal profit, but receives no economic profit nor incurs an economic loss.
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CAPITAL ACCOUNT, BALANCE OF PAYMENTS A subset of the balance of payments accounts that tracks the flow of currency and other monetary assets used to purchase financial and physical assets. This part of balance of payments tracks domestic investment in the foreign sector and foreign investment in the domestic sector. This is one of two primary subsets of the balance of payments. The other is the current account. A deficit or surplus in the capital account is matched by an opposite surplus deficit in the current account.
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The 22.6% decline in stock prices on October 19, 1987 was larger than the infamous 12.8% decline on October 29, 1929.
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