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DEREGULATION: The reduction of government regulation of business, consumers, and market activity. The most noted period of deregulation occured during the 1970s and 1980s in response to criticisms that economic regulation inhibited rather than promoted competition. Key industries deregulated during this period were transportation, communications, and banking industries. Social regulations were also relaxed.
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Lesson 6: Market Supply | Unit 1: Selling Basics
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Quantity Supplied
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Second, quantity supplied. Quantity supplied is the specific quantity of a good that sellers would be willing and able to sell at a specific price. - Price and quantity supplied are a pair of numbers that go together.
Quantity supplied is not the same as supply.- Supply is the entire range of prices and quantities (all pairs of numbers).
- Quantity supplied is a specific quantity at a specific price (a quantity paired with a price).
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PERFECT COMPETITION, SHORT-RUN SUPPLY CURVE A perfectly competitive firm's supply curve is that portion of its marginal cost curve that lies above the minimum of the average variable cost curve. A perfectly competitive firm maximizes profit by producing the quantity of output that equates price and marginal cost. As such, the firm moves along its positively-sloped marginal cost curve in response to changing prices.
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Al Capone's business card said he was a used furniture dealer.
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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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