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WAGE: A factor payment to the owner of labor for using labor services in the production of goods and services. Wages are included in the National Income and Product Accounts maintained by the Bureau of Economic Analysis under the official title compensation of employees. Wages is the largest of the four factor payments, accounting for about 70% of the income earned by the household sector. The other factors of production (and their corresponding resource) are: interest (capital), rent (land), and profit (entrepreneurship).
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Lesson 9: Consumer Demand | Unit 3: Marginal Utility
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In this unit, you should have learned about:- Marginal utility as the extra satisfaction obtained from consuming more units of a good.
- How marginal utility is identified as the change in total utility due to a change in the quantity.
- The marginal utility schedule as a table relating marginal utility and the quantity consumed.
- How marginal utility decreases with the quantity consumed until it becomes negative.
- The law of diminishing marginal utility which states that marginal utility declines when more of a good is consumed.
- Why the law of diminishing marginal utility results from fulfilling a want or need.
- The potential relation between the law of demand and the law diminishing marginal utility.
- How the diamond-water paradox illustrates the difference between total utility and marginal utility.
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ALLOCATIVE EFFICIENCY Obtaining the most consumer satisfaction from available resources. In other words, resources are allocated in such a way that consumer satisfaction is at its highest possible level. This is also termed either efficiency or economic efficiency.
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Today, you are likely to spend a great deal of time at a going out of business sale looking to buy either a large, stuffed giraffe or a birthday greeting card for your aunt. Be on the lookout for strangers with large satchels of used undergarments.
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