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BARTER ECONOMY: An economy that trades goods and services using barter exchanges rather than money. Barter economies originally predated the invention of money, emerging out the early stage of self-sufficiency before giving way to the use of commodity money. However, barter economies occasionally surface in modern times, especially when the public loses confidence in the monetary unit during a government crises or a period of hyperinflation.
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Lesson 22: Factor Supply | Unit 2: Resources
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Entrepreneurship: Risk
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- Some key features underlying the factor supply of entrepreneurial services.
- Unknown Quantity: First, because entrepreneurs can move so easily into and out of the ranks of labor, identifying the factor supply of entrepreneurship is not that simple.
- Risk Preference: Second, that task of organizing production undertaken by entrepreneurship is full of risk.
- Less to Lose: Third, people are more inclined to undertake the risk of entrepreneurship, when they have less to lose.
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UNIT ELASTIC An elasticity alternative in which changes in one variable (usually price) cause equal proportional changes in another variable (usually quantity). In other words, any change in price, whether big or small, triggers exactly the same percentage change in quantity. Quantity changes match price changes. This characterization of elasticity is most important for the price elasticity of demand and the price elasticity of supply. Unit elastic is one of five elasticity alternatives. The other four are perfectly elastic, perfectly inelastic, relatively elastic, and relatively inelastic.
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