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LAW OF COMPARATIVE ADVANTAGE: A basic principle that states every nation has a production activity that incurs a lower opportunity cost than that of another nation, which means that trade between the two nations can be beneficial to both if each specializes in the production of a good with lower relative opportunity cost. While this law is fundamental to the study of international trade, it also applies to other activities, especially the specialization and the division of labor.
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Lesson 19: Monopolistic Competition | Unit 4: Analysis
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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 PRODUCT The change in the quantity of total product resulting from a unit change in a variable input, keeping all other inputs unchanged. Marginal product, usually abbreviated MP, is found by dividing the change in total product by the change in the variable input. Marginal product, which occasionally goes by the alias marginal physical product (MPP), is one of two measures derived from total product. The other is average product.
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More money is spent on gardening than on any other hobby.
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"Defeat is simply a signal to press onward. " -- Helen Keller, author, lecturer
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NAG Net Annual Gain
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