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ECONOMIZE: The process of obtaining the most for the least. That is, to limit the cost of an action or to gain the greatest benefit from an activity. To economize also means to limit or prevent waste and inefficiency.

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Lesson 19: Monopolistic Competition | Unit 4: Analysis Page: 17 of 22

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  • Attracting customers is the firm's prime reason for advertising:

  • Advertising is information provided by a company about its product or operation, usually through media such as television, radio, newspapers, magazines, and the Internet, to promote or maintain sales, revenue, and/or profit.
  • Advertising is generally used by monopolistic competition to accomplish two related goals -- product differentiation and market control.

  • From a more graphical standpoint, advertising seeks:

    • To Increase Demand

    • To Reduce Demand Elasticity


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MARGINAL PROPENSITY TO IMPORT

The change in imports purchased from the foreign induced by a change in income or production (national income or gross domestic product). The marginal propensity to import (abbreviated MPM) is another term for the slope of the imports line and is calculated as the change in imports divided by the change in income or production. The MPM plays a role in Keynesian economics. It augments the slope of the aggregate expenditures line and is part to the multiplier process. A related marginal measure is the marginal propensity to consume.

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General Electric is the only stock from the original 1896 Dow Jones Industrial Average remaining in the current index.
"There is at least one point in the history of any company when you have to change dramatically to rise to the next level of performance. Miss that moment, and you start to decline. "

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