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FINANCIAL CAPITAL: A legal claim to or ownership of a physical asset. Common financial assets are stocks, bonds, money, and government securities. These are also termed paper assets.
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Lesson 22: Factor Supply | Unit 2: Resources
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Labor: Satisfaction And Leisure
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- The perpetual trade-off faced by the providers of labor services -- work versus leisure -- results because the person can not be separated from the productive resource.
- A couple of important implications for the factor supply of labor.
- Compensating Wages: First, wages tend to be higher or lower depending on the amount of satisfaction associated with the job.
- Backward-Bending Supply: Second, satisfaction is affected by both working and not working (that is, leisure).
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LIQUIDITY The ease with which an asset can be converted to money with little or no loss of value. Money, currency and checkable deposits, is the benchmark for liquidity. Money is what other assets are converted to. Different assets have differing degrees of liquidity. Financial assets have differing degrees of liquidity but tend to be more liquid that physical assets. Liquidity is important to components of the three monetary aggregates tracked and reported by the Federal Reserve System--M1, M2, and M3.
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Today, you are likely to spend a great deal of time searching the newspaper want ads wanting to buy either a wall poster commemorating the moon landing or storage boxes for your winter clothes. Be on the lookout for florescent light bulbs that hum folk songs from the sixties.
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Helping spur the U.S. industrial revolution, Thomas Edison patented nearly 1300 inventions, 300 of which came out of his Menlo Park "invention factory" during a four-year period.
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VC
Variable Cost
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