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CARTEL: A formal agreement between businesses in the same industry, usually on an international scale, to get market control, raise the market price, and otherwise act like a monopoly. A cartel tends to be unstable because the artificially high prices it sets gives each member of the cartel an incentive to "cheat" with a slightly lower price. When only one member of the cartel lowers the price, it can make oodles of profit by taking customers away from the other members. If they all cheat, the cartel falls apart. While cartels damage efficiency, they're power is often short-lived because of this cheating. Like collusion and other techniques of market control, cartels are illegal in the United States.
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Lesson 21: Factor Demand | Unit 3: The Curve
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Marginal Revenue Product Schedule
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- The factor demand schedule of an hypothetical firm:
- Deriving the marginal revenue is relatively straightforward, under the right assumptions:
- Let's assume that the firm sells its product in a perfectly competitive market.
- Under this assumption, marginal revenue is equal to price for each and every quantity of output produced.
- Deriving marginal revenue product under this assumption involves little more than multiplying this $2 price by the marginal physical product values in the third column.
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ECONOMIC GROWTH The long-run expansion of the economy's ability to produce output. Growth is attained by increasing the quantity or quality of the economy's resources--labor, capital, land, and entrepreneurship--through such things as population growth, investment, exploration, technological innovation, and education. This is one of the five economic goals and more specifically one of the three macroeconomic goals. The other goals are full employment, stability, efficiency and equity.
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