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MATERIALS BALANCE: A hard and fast rule that the total amount of stuff removed from the natural environment will be eventually returned, probably as pollution. This is based on a fundamental law of physics that says material can be neither created nor destroyed, but only transformed. During any given period (such as a year) the quantity of materials returned to the environment is the difference between the quantity extracted and the quantity used by the economy.
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Lesson 4: Production Possibilities | Unit 5: Investment
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Bundle Choices: I
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Now with bundle I (270 jogging shoes and 8 calibrators).- Producing 8 calibrators has added even more to the economy's capital.
- The cost of these 8 calibrators is 180 pairs of shoes compared to A, and the extra 4 calibrators compared to bundle E is 140 pairs of shoes.
- These 8 calibrators have increased the quantity of resources even more than bundle E, leading to an even greater shift of production possibilities curve.
- Tomorrow's production possibilities curve is even farther out than today's curve. There is more growth and a bigger shift in the curve.
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MARKET The organized exchange of commodities (goods, services, or resources) between buyers and sellers within a specific geographic area and during a given period of time. Markets are the exchange between buyers who want a good (the demand-side of the market) and the sellers who have it (the supply-side of the market).
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Post WWI induced hyperinflation in German in the early 1900s raised prices by 726 million times from 1918 to 1923.
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"Intense concentration hour after hour can bring out resources in people they didn't know they had. " -- Edwin Land, inventor, entrepreneur
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AFEA American Farm Economic Association
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