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UNDISTRIBUTED CORPORATE PROFITS: Commonly termed retained earnings, these are corporate profits that are neither paid as corporate profits taxes nor paid to shareholders as dividends. Undistributed corporate profits are important for the derivation of personal income from national income. Because undistributed corporate profits are income that is earned by the shareholders, but not received, it falls in the general category of income earned but not received (IEBNR), and is subtracted from national income in the derivation of personal income.

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Lesson 3: Scarcity | Unit 5: THE Problem Page: 16 of 17

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Can we solve the scarcity problem?

Solutions:

  • Make unlimited resources: A solution to a world constrained by limited resources is a world of unlimited resources. It could happen. But is unlikely, even with technological advances.
  • Make wants and needs limited: Another solution could be that everyone has limited wants and needs. Unlimited wants and needs seems basic to human nature. Would we want to make wants an needs limited?

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RATIONAL BEHAVIOR

The notion that people make decisions based on the desire to obtain the greatest amount of satisfaction. Rational behavior essentially means that people prefer more to less. The presumption of rational behavior underlies most economic analysis, especially that applied to consumer demand theory.

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