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INDUSTRY: A group of firms producing goods or services that are close substitutes-in-consumption. The similarity of the products makes it possible to analyze the production in a market framework. An industry can be broadly defined, such as the manufacturing industry, or narrowly specified, such as the root beer industry. For most economic analysis the term industry is used interchangeably with the term market.
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Lesson 4: Production Possibilities | Unit 3: The Curve
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Connecting Points
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Like a constellation in the sky, we will find it convenient to outline an 'image' by connecting the individual points.- Connecting our 11 points lets us include other options. These are only 11 of many possibilities.
- The curve we get is the production possibilities curve. It's also termed the production possibilities frontier for reasons that will become clear as we continue this lesson.
- Note that the curve is flat at the top and steep at the bottom.
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AVERAGE PHYSICAL PRODUCT The quantity of total output produced per unit of a variable input, holding all other inputs fixed. Average physical product, usually abbreviated APP, is found by dividing total physical product by the quantity of the variable input. Average product, which more often goes by the shorter name average product (AP), is one of two measures derived from total physical product. The other is marginal physical product.
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It's estimated that the U.S. economy has about $20 million of counterfeit currency in circulation, less than 0.001 perecent of the total legal currency.
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"Lord, where we are wrong, make us willing to change; where we are right, make us easy to live with. " -- Peter Marshall, US Senate chaplain
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NAV Net Asset Value
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