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LAW OF INCREASING OPPORTUNITY COST: The proposition that opportunity cost, the value of foregone production, increases as more of a good is produced. This "law" can be seen in the production possibilities schedule and is illustrated graphically through the slope of the production possibilities curve. It generates the distinctive convex shape of the curve, making it flat at the top and steep at the bottom.
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Lesson 7: Market Equilibrium | Unit 1: The Exchange
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Market is the term we used to indicate voluntary trades among buyers and sellers. These trade involve a mutually agreeable quantity at a mutually agreeable price. A definition: A market is an organized exchange of commodities (including resources, goods, and services) among buyers and sellers, during a given time period.Four important points about markets. 1. Markets are voluntary trades among buyers who want something (the demand side) and sellers who have something (the supply side). 2. The most important items traded are the goods and services that people consume, and the resources used to produce these goods and services. 3. Markets are the voluntary means of facing the scarcity problem. Government is the involuntary way of the facing scarcity problem. 4. Like demand and supply, markets are analyzed over a given time period.
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ACCOUNTING COST An actual outlay or expenses incurred in the production of a good that shows up in a firm's accounting statements and records. Accounting cost is an explicit payment (that is, money changing hands) incurred by a firm. Accounting cost, while very important to accountants, company CEOs, shareholders, and the Internal Revenue Service, is only minimally important to economists. The reason is that economists are more interested in economic cost (also called opportunity cost), which is the value of foregone production.
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Approximately three-fourths of the U.S. paper currency in circular contains traces of cocaine.
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"Do not stop thinking of life as an adventure. You have no security unless you can live bravely, excitingly, imaginatively, unless you can choose a challenge instead of a competence. " -- Eleanor Roosevelt, first lady
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VIR
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