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ABSOLUTE ADVANTAGE: The general ability to produced more goods using fewer resources. This idea of absolute advantage is important for trading that occurs between both people and nations. A nation can get an absolute advantage from an advanced level of technology or higher quality resources. For a person, an absolute advantage can result from natural abilities or the acquisition of human capital (education, training, or experience).
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Lesson 7: Market Equilibrium | Unit 5: The Method
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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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POLITICAL VIEWS Alternative perspectives of the proper role that government should play in the economy, with conservatives on the right, liberals on the left, and moderates in the middle. Libertarians show up to the right of conservatives and socialists (including Marxists and communists) are to the left of liberals.
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A thousand years before metal coins were developed, clay tablet "checks" were used as money by the Babylonians.
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