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GOVERNMENT PURCHASES OF GOODS AND SERVICES: Expenditures on final goods and services (that is, gross domestic product) undertaken by the government sector. The official entry for government purchases in the National Income and Product Accounts maintained by the Bureau of Economic Analysis is termed government consumption expenditures and gross investment. Government purchases are used to operate the government (administrative salaries, etc.) and to provide public goods (national defense, highways, etc.). Government purchases do not include other government spending for transfer payments. These are expenditures on final goods by all three levels of government: federal, state, and local governments.
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Lesson 9: Consumer Demand | Unit 5: Taking Stock
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Two Considerations
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- The law of diminishing marginal utility sets the stage for understanding the law of demand.
- But it represents only part of the explanation.
- Two other considerations in our behind the scenes look at demand are:
- Constrained Choices
- If marginal utility is not zero, because of constrained utility maximization, then marginal utility is greater than zero and the price buyers are willing to pay is also greater than zero.
- Other Goods
- In the real world, I would not merely decide yes or no about the beach. I would weigh beach frolicking with other options.
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SHUTDOWN RULE A rule stating that a firm minimizes economic loss by producing no output in the short run if price is less than average variable cost. This is one of three short-run production alternatives facing a firm. The other two are profit maximization (if price exceeds average total cost) and loss minimization (if price is less than average total cost but greater than average variable cost).
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