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SAVING-INVESTMENT EQUALITY: A classical economic proposition stating that flexible prices ensure an equality between saving and investment. This equality is essential to obtain the classical economic conclusion that unrestricted markets achieve and maintain full employment. This is one of the three assumptions underlying classical economics. The other two assumptions are flexible prices and Say's law.

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Lesson 4: Production Possibilities | Unit 5: Investment Page: 24 of 24

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  • Investment as the fundamental process of giving up current consumption to achieve greater productivity in the future.
  • How the tradeoff between consumption and capital is illustrated by a movement along the production possibilities curve.
  • How the sacrifice of more current consumption to produce more capital leads to a greater outward shift in the production possibilities curve.
  • The importance of economic growth resulting from investment in addressing the fundamental problem of scarcity.


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A rule stating that a firm minimizes economic loss by producing no output in the short run if price is less than average variable cost. This is one of three short-run production alternatives facing a firm. The other two are profit maximization (if price exceeds average total cost) and loss minimization (if price is less than average total cost but greater than average variable cost).

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