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A PRIORI: A presumption made before an analysis is undertaken, often based on experiences, beliefs, or deductions from seemingly self-evident propositions about how the world works. This is a Latin for assumption or axiom. A similar sounding, but opposite term is a posteriori, which is derived from observation or facts. For example, in the study of economics of crime you might assume, a priori, that people are basically "good", because that just seems to be part of human nature, and conclude, a posteriori, that people are more likely to commit crimes when the threat of capture and conviction is lower.
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Lesson 7: Market Equilibrium | Unit 4: Adjustment
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A shortage exists if the quantity demanded is greater than the quantity supplied at the current market price.- A shortage exists if the market price is 30 cents.
- The quantity supplied is 200 tapes and the quantity demanded is 600 tapes, giving a shortage of 400 tapes.
- This shortage induces the price to rise up to the equilibrium level of 50 cents.
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PERFECT COMPETITION, MARGINAL ANALYSIS A perfectly competitive firm produces the profit-maximizing quantity of output that equates marginal revenue and marginal cost. This marginal approach is one of three methods that used to determine the profit-maximizing quantity of output. The other two methods involve the direct analysis of economic profit or a comparison of total revenue and total cost.
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