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TOTAL COST: The opportunity cost incurred by all of the factors of production used by a firm to produce of a good or service, including wages paid to labor, rent paid for the land, interest paid to capital owners, and a normal profit paid to entrepreneurs. Total cost is most important in the analysis a firm's short-run production decision and is frequently separated into total variable cost and total fixed. cost.
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Lesson 5: Market Demand | Unit 5: Scarcity
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Demand is closely related to the scarcity problem, especially unlimited wants and needs.- Scarcity arises because society has limited resources but unlimited wants and needs.
- The connection between demand and scarcity is:
- The demand side of the markets comes directly from the unlimited wants and needs side of the scarcity problem, and
- The supply side of the market comes from the limited resources side of the scarcity problem.
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INFLATION CAUSES Inflation, the persistent increase in the average price level, can be caused by an increase in aggregate demand or a decrease in aggregate supply. This suggests two basics sources, causes, or types of inflation--demand-pull inflation and cost-push inflation. While short-term bouts of inflation (up to several months) can result from anything (determinant) that might cause either increases in aggregate demand or decreases in aggregate supply, long-term inflation (a year or more) is possible ONLY through persistent increases in the money supply. As such, while demand-pull inflation and cost-push inflation are convenient ways to catalog the transmission mechanisms of inflation, the ultimate CAUSE of inflation is money.
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