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SCARCE: The general condition indicating that a good or resource is limited relative to the what people want. In terms of ALL resources and goods throughout society, the related term scarcity is used. Being scarce is what makes it possible to exchange goods and resources through markets, and most importantly, charge a price. If a good is not scarce, which means that the economy has more than enough to satisfy all available uses, then there is no way to sell it. Who would buy such an item, pay a price for it, give up something of value in exchange for it, when it is so abundant? Likewise, if a item is so abundant, using it to satisfy one use does not impose an opportunity cost on other uses.
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Lesson 20: Oligopoly | Unit 3: Behavior
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In this unit, you should have learned about:- Why oligopoly is characterized by interdependent decision making, because the actions of one firm invariably affect other firms in the industry.
- How interdependent decision making results from oligopoly firms that practice competition among the few.
- How intense competition among oligopoly firms often gives way to cooperation through price leadership, collusion, cartel, and merger.
- How oligopoly firms cooperate through collusion, by secretly set prices, limiting production, and acting like a monopoly.
- How price leadership can be used as an implicit form of collusion and that cartels are an explicit form of collusion.
- How cooperation among oligopoly firms can be formalized through mergers, the legal joining of two or more firms into a single firm.
- The differences between horizontal mergers, vertical mergers, and conglomerate mergers, and which is most likely to violate antitrust laws.
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FACTOR PAYMENTS Payments made to scarce resources, or the factors of production (labor, capital, land, and entrepreneurship), in return for productive services. Factor payments are frequently categorized according to the services of the productive resource being rewarded. Wages are paid for the services of labor; interest is the payment for the services of capital, rent is the services for land, and profit is the factor payment to entrepreneurship.
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Today, you are likely to spend a great deal of time looking for the new strip mall out on the highway hoping to buy either a set of serrated steak knives, with durable plastic handles or a pair of blue silicon oven mitts. Be on the lookout for spoiled cheese hiding under your bed hatching conspiracies against humanity.
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Potato chips were invented in 1853 by a irritated chef repeatedly seeking to appease the hard to please Cornelius Vanderbilt who demanded french fried potatoes that were thinner and crisper than normal.
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"Don't be distracted by criticism. Remember the only taste of success some people have is when they take a bite out of you." -- Zig Ziglar
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JGB
Japanese Government Bond
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