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Resources, Externalities, and Stuff
Terms from Mankiw's Principles of Economics that I don't know
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Economics
Undergraduate 1
05/19/2013

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Factors of Production
Definition
The inputs used to produce goods and services
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Production Function
Definition
The relationship between the quantity of inputs used to make a good and the quantity of output of that good
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Marginal Product of Labor
Definition
The increase in the amount of output from an additional unit of labor
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Diminishing Marginal Product
Definition
The property whereby the marginal product of an input declines as the quantity of the input increases
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Value of the Marginal Product
Definition
The marginal product of an input times the price of the output
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Capital
Definition
The equipment and structures used to produce goods and services
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Present Value
Definition
The amount of money today that would be needed, using prevailing interest rates, to produce a given future amount of money
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Future Value
Definition
The amount of money in the future that an amount of money today will yield, given prevailing interest rates
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Compounding
Definition
The accumulation of a sum of money in, say, a bank account, where the interest earned remains in the account to earn additional interest in the future
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Risk Aversion
Definition
A dislike of uncertainty
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Diversification
Definition
The reduction of risk achieved by replacing a single risk with a large number of smaller, unrelated risks
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Firm-specific Risk
Definition
Risk that affects only a single company
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Market Risk
Definition
Risk that affects all companies in the stock market
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Fundamental Analysis
Definition
The study of a company's accounting statements and future prospects to determine its value
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Efficient Markets Hypothesis
Definition
The theory that asset prices reflect all publicly available information about the value of an asset
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Informational Efficiency
Definition
The description of asset prices that rationally reflect all available information
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Random Walk
Definition
The path of a variable whose changes are impossible to predict
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Externality
Definition
The uncompensated impact of one person's actions on the well-being of a bystander
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Internalizing the Externality
Definition
Altering incentives so that people take account of the external effects of their actions
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Coase Theorem
Definition
The proposition that if private parties can bargain without cost over the allocation of resources, they can solve the problem of externalities on their own
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Transaction Costs
Definition
The costs that parties incur in the process of agreeing to and following through on a bargain
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Excludability
Definition
The property of a good whereby a person can be prevented from using it
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Rivalry in Consumption
Definition
The property of a good whereby one person's use diminishes other people's use
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Private Goods
Definition
Goods that are both excludable and rival in consumption
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Public Goods
Definition
Goods that are neither excludable nor rival in consumption
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Common Resources
Definition
Goods that are rival in consumption but not excludable
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Club Goods
Definition
Goods that are excludable but not rival in consumption
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Free Rider
Definition
A person who receives the benefit of a good but avoids paying for it
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Cost-Benefit Analysis
Definition
A study that compares the costs and benefits to society of providing a public good
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Tragedy of the Commons
Definition
A parable that illustrates why common resources are used more than is desirable from the standpoint of society as a whole
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Monopoly
Definition
A firm that is the sole seller of a product without close substitutes
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Natural Monopoly
Definition
A monopoly that arises because a single firm can supply a good or service to an entire market at a smaller cost than could two or more firms
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Price Discrimination
Definition
The business practice of selling the same good at different prices to different customers
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