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BY-PRODUCT: One of two goods that are produced jointly using the same resource--that is, the production of one good automatically triggers the production of the other. Also termed joint products or complements-in-production, the phrase by-product is often used when one of the products is unwanted or of secondary importance. For example, sawdust is generally considered a by-product from producing lumber from trees.
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PERFECT COMPETITION, SHORT-RUN SUPPLY CURVE A perfectly competitive firm's supply curve is that portion of its marginal cost curve that lies above the minimum of the average variable cost curve. A perfectly competitive firm maximizes profit by producing the quantity of output that equates price and marginal cost. As such, the firm moves along its positively-sloped marginal cost curve in response to changing prices.
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Lombard Street is London's equivalent of New York's Wall Street.
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"The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there." -- Leslie Poles Hartley, Writer
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GARP Generalized Axioms of Revealed Preference
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