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WEIGHT LOSING: An activity in which the transportation cost of the inputs is greater than the transportation cost of the output. Using the term weight to mean transportation cost, an activity is said to lose weight if the cost of getting the inputs to the factory is greater than the cost of moving the output to the market. A weight-losing activity has a greater attraction to, and tends to locate near, the source for the inputs.
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Lesson 21: Factor Demand | Unit 4: Determinants
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In this unit, you should have learned about:- How and why factor demand determinants shift the factor demand curve.
- The three main factor demand determinants -- product demand, factor productivity, and other prices.
- That an increase in factor demand is a rightward shift of the factor demand curve and that a decrease in factor demand is a leftward shift of the factor demand curve.
- How the product demand determinant is reflected by the product price and how changes in product price cause the factor demand curve to shift.
- How the factor productivity determinant is includes changes in technology and education and is reflected by marginal physical product and how changes in factor productivity cause the factor demand curve to shift.
- How the other prices determinant captures both substitute and complement relations between factors and how changes in other prices cause the factor demand curve to shift.
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PRIVATE GOODS Goods characterized by rival consumption and the ability to exclude nonpayers. Private goods are one of four types of goods differentiated by consumption rivalry and nonpayer excludability. The other three goods are public (nonrival consumption and nonpayers cannot be excluded), common-property (rival consumption and nonpayers cannot be excluded), and near-public (nonrival consumption and nonpayers can be excluded). Rival consumption and the ease of excluding of nonpayers means private goods can be efficiently exchanged through markets.
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Today, you are likely to spend a great deal of time searching for a specialty store looking to buy either a wall poster commemorating last Friday (you know why) or a country wreathe. Be on the lookout for telephone calls from long-lost relatives. Your Complete Scope
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Parker Brothers, the folks who produce the Monopoly board game, prints more Monopoly money each year than real currency printed by the U.S. government.
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"Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness." -- Martin Luther King, Jr., clergyman
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GNP Gross National Product
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