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OIKONOMOS: This rather strange word is a greek term meaning "household manager" or "household steward" that gave rise to the modern term economy and the whole range of related terms, including economic, economics, economist, and economize. Ironically there are those who use economics less with the goal of providing "stewardship" of the economy and more focused on the goal of extracting maximum personal gain.
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Lesson 6: Market Supply | Unit 4: Determinants
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- Supply, the whole range of prices and quantities
- Quantity supplied, a specific quantity supplied at a specific price.
The difference between:- Change in supply, we are changing, moving, shifting, the entire supply curve, the whole set of prices and quantities is changing. The five determinants change the supply.
- Change in quantity supplied, we have moved to a new quantity on an same supply curve. Only the price of the good changes the quantity supplied.
- This difference lets us analyze cause and effect.
- Don't confuse these two.
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MARGINAL REVENUE PRODUCT The change in total revenue resulting from a unit change in a variable input, keeping all other inputs unchanged. Marginal revenue product, usually abbreviated MRP, is found by dividing the change in total revenue by the change in the variable input or by multiplying marginal physical product by marginal revenue. This is also termed value of the marginal product. Marginal revenue product is a key concept for understanding the demand for productive inputs.
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In the early 1900s around 300 automobile companies operated in the United States.
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"Old age isn't so bad when you consider the alternative. " -- Cato, Roman orator
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MSCI Morgan Stanley Capital Index
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