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LABOR-LEISURE TRADEOFF: The perpetual tradeoff faced by human beings between the amount of time spent engaged in wage-paying productive work and satisfaction-generating leisure activities. The key to this tradeoff is a comparison between the wage received from working and the amount of satisfaction generated from leisure. Such a comparison generally means that a higher wage entices people to spend more time working, which entails a positively sloped labor supply curve. However, the backward-bending labor supply curve results when a higher wage actually entices people to work less and to "consume" more leisure time.
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Lesson 23: Factor Market Equilibrium | Unit 1: Intro
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- Factor markets:
- Factor markets combine factor demand and factor supply to exchange the productive services of resources or factors of production.
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and resource markets are synonymous. - Like any market, factors markets combine the forces of demand and supply.
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INVESTMENT EXPENDITURES DETERMINANTS Ceteris paribus factors, other than aggregate income or production, that are held constant when the investment line is constructed and which cause the investment line to shift when they change. Some of the more important investment expenditures determinants are interest rates, expectations, wealth, capital prices, and technology.
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Today, you are likely to spend a great deal of time at a going out of business sale looking to buy either a T-shirt commemorating the 2000 Olympics or a genuine fake plastic Tiffany lamp. Be on the lookout for mail order catalogs with hidden messages.
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The penny is the only coin minted by the U.S. government in which the "face" on the head looks to the right. All others face left.
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"The greatest things ever done on Earth have been done little by little. " -- William Jennings Bryan
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LME
London Metal Exchange
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