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COMMAND ECONOMY: An economy in which the government uses its coercive powers (such as command and control) to answer the three questions of allocation. This is the real world version of the idealized theoretical pure command economy. While in this real world version some allocation decisions are undertaken by markets, the vast majority are made through central planning. The two most notable command economies of the 20th century were the communist/socialist economic systems of China and the Soviet Union.

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Lesson 6: Market Supply | Unit 2: Law of Supply Page: 6 of 19

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An important question is: Why does the law of supply work?
  • The answer rests with production cost. In particular, the law of supply exists because of the law of increasing opportunity cost.
  • As we saw with production possibilities analysis, by increasing the production of a good, the opportunity cost of production increases.
  • Production cost increases as we increase production. To supply a larger quantity, producers need to cover these higher production costs with a higher price.

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A generally accepted, verified, proven, fundamental scientific relation. A law is a scientifically certified, thoroughly verified, cause-and-effect relation about the workings of the world. It has been tested and retested through the scientific method. The law of demand, law of increasing opportunity cost, and law of diminishing marginal utility are three fundamental (and extremely important) economic laws of nature.

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