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HOARDING: The act of accumulating assets, especially goods or money, over and above that needed for immediate use based on the fear or expectation of future shortages and higher prices. For example, concerns about a worldwide shortage of sugar and chocolate might prompt a consumer to purchase several hundred boxes of candy, which are stored in a wine cellar. Alternatively, someone fearing a global collapse of the financial system might be inclined to pack pillow cases with bundles of cash or stockpile gold bullion in the closet. Such hoarding, if widely practiced, can actually contribute to the anticipated shortage and higher prices.
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Lesson 6: Market Supply | Unit 4: Determinants
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Shifters: Decrease
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Supply determinants shift the supply curve.- The supply curve is drawn assuming that only price and quantity change. The determinants are assumed to be constant.
- A change in one of the determinants can cause:
- A decrease in supply, a leftward shift, which means that for any price, for every price, sellers are willing and able to sell less of the good.
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MARGINAL PHYSICAL PRODUCT The change in the quantity of total physical product resulting from a unit change in a variable input, keeping all other inputs unchanged. Marginal physical product, usually abbreviated MPP, is found by dividing the change in total physical product by the change in the variable input. Marginal physical product, which more often goes by the name marginal product (MP), is one of two measures derived from total physical product. The other is average physical product.
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Before 1933, the U.S. dime was legal as payment only in transactions of $10 or less.
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"Carpe diem! Rejoice while you are alive; enjoy the day; live life to the fullest; make the most of what you have. It is later than you think." -- Horace, Ancient Roman poet
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IIA Irrelevance of Independent Alternatives
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