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INSOLVENCY: The condition of a business when liabilities (excluding ownership equity) are greater than Assets. In other words, a business can't pay it's debts. This is a first step on the road to bankruptcy, but it doesn't guarantee that legal bankruptcy proceedings will be initiated.

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The law of demand is the basic principle underlying demand, one of our most important economic laws.

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The law of demand is an inverse relationship between demand price and the quantity demanded, ceteris paribus.

  • Inverse relationship means that people buy more of a good if the price is lower and less if the price is higher.
  • In terms of scientific method, price causes quantity demanded. A change in the price causes a change in the quantity demanded.
Ceteris paribus is important to the law of demand.
  • Ceteris paribus means other things remain unchanged.
  • Law of demand applies exclusively to the relationship between demand price and quantity demanded.
  • All other things that can affect demand must remain constant to avoid distorting this relationship.
  • Because demand is affected by many factors other than price, a buyer may buy larger amounts of a good even with a higher price.
  • Other factors that affect demand are called demand determinants.

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SLOPE, PRODUCTION POSSIBILITIES CURVE

The numerical value of the slope of the production possibilities curve, which illustrates the alternative combinations of two goods that an economy can produce with given resources and technology, is the opportunity cost of producing the good measured on the horizontal axis.

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