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DEMAND AND SUPPLY DECREASE: A simultaneous decrease in the willingness and ability of buyers to purchase a good at the existing price, illustrated by a leftward shift of the demand curve, and a decrease in the willingness and ability of sellers to sell a good at the existing price, illustrated by a leftward shift of the supply curve. When combined, both shifts result in a decrease in equilibrium quantity and an indeterminant change in equilibrium price.
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Lesson 7: Market Equilibrium | Unit 5: The Method
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Inefficient use of resources can result from:- The fourth rule of competition-with less competition buyers or sellers control the price. The quantity is too little and the demand price is greater than the supply price.
- The seventh rule of complexity-costs or benefits external to the market (externalities) cause differences between the value of goods produced and goods not produced, even though market demand and supply prices are equal.
- The fifth rule of imperfection-markets are not perfect.
- Scarcity implies the lack of competition.
- Complexity implies externalities.
Efficiency is a goal, not a perpetual state of the world.
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PRODUCTION FUNCTION A mathematical relation between the production of a good or service and the inputs used. A production function captures the general relation between total production and one or more inputs. The standard production function includes labor and capital as the inputs. However, a production function is general enough that any number of inputs can be included
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ECU European Currency Unit
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