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TC: The abbreviation for total cost, which is the opportunity cost incurred by all of the factors of production used by a firm to produce of a good or service, including wages paid to labor, rent paid for the land, interest paid to capital owners, and a normal profit paid to entrepreneurs. Total cost is most important in the analysis a firm's short-run production decision and is frequently separated into total variable cost and total fixed cost.
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Lesson 7: Market Equilibrium | Unit 5: The Method
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Too Much Production
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This market has a 50-cent price and a 400-tape quantity in equilibrium.- Note the demand price and the supply price if the quantity is 500 tapes.
- The demand price is 40 cents. This is the value of the good produced.
- The supply price is 60 cents. This is the value of goods not produced.
- Producing this quantity is the same as giving up 60 cents and getting 40 cents in return.
- 500 tapes is not an efficient use of resources
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AGGREGATE DEMAND The total real expenditures on final goods and services produced in the domestic economy that buyers are willing and able to undertake at different price levels, during a given time period (usually a year). Aggregate demand, usually abbreviated AD, is an inverse relation between price level and aggregate expenditures. This is one half of the AS-AD (aggregate market) analysis. The other half is aggregate supply. Aggregate demand consists of four aggregate expenditures--consumption expenditures, investment expenditures, government purchases, and net exports--made by the four macroeconomic sectors--household, business, government, and foreign.
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North Carolina supplied all the domestic gold coined for currency by the U.S. Mint in Philadelphia until 1828.
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PV Present Value
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