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Cosuness and the Costs of Production
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Economics
Undergraduate 1
10/02/2012

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Term
Economic Cost
Definition
The payment that must be made to obtain and retain the services of a resource
Term
Explicit Cost
Definition
The montary payment a firm will make to those it must purchase resources that it does not own.
(Cash transactions)

Ex.Payment of workers, Lease of Building, Utilities
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Implicit Cost
Definition
The opportunity cost of using the resources that it already owns.

Ex. Forgone Interest, potential a earnings as a worker, value of entrepreneurial ability
Term
Economic Cost
Definition
= explicit cost + implicit cost
Term
Accounting Profit
Definition
Explicit Cost - Sales Revenue
Term
Economic Profit
Definition
Explicit Cost - the accounting profit
Term
Total Product l
Definition
The total quantity or total output of a particular good or service produced
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Marginal Product u
Definition
The extra output or added product assiciated with adding a unit of a resource
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When Total Product is diminishing, marginal product is?
Definition
A. Negative
B. Constant
C. Positive but increasing
D. Positive but declining
Term
Marginal Cost
Definition
The extra cost of producing one more unit of output.

Ex. Change in Total Cost/ Quantity
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