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INDEX OF CONSUMER SENTIMENT: A measure of consumer attitudes, preferences, and expectations concerning the state of the economy and business-cycle conditions that is compiled each month by the Survey Research Center at the University of Michigan. The Index of Consumer Sentiment is one of two primary measures of consumer attitudes. The other is the Consumer Confidence Index developed by The Conference Board.

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Lesson 21: Factor Demand | Unit 3: The Curve Page: 14 of 24

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  • The number of workers the firm is willing to hire for production depends on the marginal revenue product of the workers.

  • In particular, the firm compares the wage or price paid each worker with the marginal revenue product generated by the worker.

  • It will seek to employ workers up to the quantity in which marginal revenue product is at least as much as the wage.

  • The story seems quite clear: If the wage the firm pays workers is $20 per hour, then it will hire only 6 employees.

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DEMAND

The willingness and ability to buy a range of quantities of a good at a range of prices, during a given time period. Demand is an inverse relation between price (demand price) and quantity (quantity demanded). Demand is one half of the market exchange process--the other is supply. This demand side of the market draws inspiration from the unlimited wants and needs dimension of the scarcity problem.

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