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ADAM SMITH: A Scottish professor (born 1723, died 1790) who is considered the father of modern economics for his revolutionary book, entitled An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations published in 1776.
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Lesson 22: Factor Supply | Unit 3: Factor Supply
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In this unit, you should have learned about:- The three types of supply -- market supply, supply by a firm, and supply to a firm -- and the role supply to a firm has in the analysis of factor markets.
- The four types of market structures based on market control of the buying-side -- perfect competition, monopsony, monopsonistic competition, and oligopsony.
- The three notions of factor cost -- total factor cost, average factor cost, and marginal factor cost.
- The role of market control in the equality or inequality of factor price, average factor cost, and marginal factor cost.
- The two factor supply curves -- one horizontal, the other positively sloped -- based on no market control or some market control.
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PROCESS INNOVATION An innovation that is an improvement in an existing product, technology, or idea or an improvement in the way a product, technology, or idea is produced. The contrast is with a product innovation, which is an innovation of a new product, technology, or idea that generates a beneficial improvement in society and the economy; one that is fundamentally different from existing products, technologies, or ideas.
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Today, you are likely to spend a great deal of time visiting every yard sale in a 30-mile radius looking to buy either a T-shirt commemorating the 2000 Olympics or a genuine fake plastic Tiffany lamp. Be on the lookout for empty parking spaces that appear to be near the entrance to a store.
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Three-forths of the gold mined each year is used to manufacture jewelry.
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"Man is born to live, not to prepare for life. " -- Boris Pasternak, writer
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PWAC
Present Worth of Annual Costs
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