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DEPRECIATION, CAPITAL: The wearing out, breaking down, or technological obsolescence of physical capital that results from use in the production of goods and services. To paraphrase an old saying, "You can't make a car without breaking a few socket wrenches." In other words, when capital is used over and over again to produce goods and services, it wears down from such use.
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Lesson 9: Consumer Demand | Unit 4: The Curves
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- A method of graphing the marginal utility curve is to derive it directly from the total utility curve.
- This method is based on an interesting and useful relation between totals and marginals that surfaces time and time again in the study of economics, what we can term the total-marginal relation.
- The total-marginal relation is that the marginal value of a variable is equal to the slope of the curve for the corresponding total value of a variable.
- For our immediate discussion of marginal utility, this means that marginal utility is the slope of the total utility curve.
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OCCUPATIONAL MOBILITY The mobility, or movement, of factors of production from one type of productive activity to another type of productive activity. In particular, occupational mobility is the ease with which resources can change occupations. This is one of two types of mobility. The other is geographic mobility.
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Today, you are likely to spend a great deal of time flipping through the yellow pages seeking to buy either a coffee cup commemorating next Thursday or a replacement remote control for your stereo system. Be on the lookout for strangers with large satchels of used undergarments.
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Two and a half gallons of oil are needed to produce one automobile tire.
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"The greatest things ever done on Earth have been done little by little. " -- William Jennings Bryan
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