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Economics
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05/19/2009

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Monopolistic Competition
Definition
Large numbers of buyers and sellers of a defferentiated product
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Monopoly
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Large number of buyers but only one seller
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Derived Demand
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A favorable effect on one or more When the demand for an input item depends mainly on teh demand for the end product it is used to create
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External Economy
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A favorable effect on one or more people that emanates from a different person or firm
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An improvement in production technology leads to:
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an increase in the supply of the good
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unemployment lurks during
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depression
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The author of the theory of comparative advantage is
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David Ricardo
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Grsham's Law
Definition
bad money drives out good
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The three distinct systems as per principles of economics
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Capitalism, Socialism and mixed economy
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Adam Smith's "Wealth of Nations" taught
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Countries should export goods they can make cheaply and import goods that would be expensive to create
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Principle of relative advantage
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A country should take into account which exports would create the most profit
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Total Utility
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The grosws psychological satisfactoin a customer receives from consuming a number of goods
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Marginal Utility
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The psychological satisfaction a customer felt while consuming the most recent unit of a product
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Law of diminishing marginal utility
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After consuming a certain amount of goods, a customer experiences diminished satisfaction from each good
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Supply and Demand
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A product's value is higher when demand for the product is high and supply is low
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Excess Demand
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When a market wants more of a product that producers are willing to provide
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excess supply
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When there is more of a product than the market wants to consume
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consumer's surplus
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Th edifference between the max. a consumer would pay for a product and the actual price paid in the market
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elasticity of demand
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Percentage change in the quantity demanded by the percentage change in the price
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real cost
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the amount of mental and physical effort put in and the sacrifices made to produce the commodity
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explicit cost
Definition
cash payments made for goods or services
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money cost
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the total sum of all factors of production in producing the product
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equation used to find the marginal revenue
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MR=change in total revenue (TR)/change in units sold (U)
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perfect competition
Definition
A market with a large number of buyers and sellers of homogenous set of goods
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The characteristics of fixed-costs tell us that
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They are only fixed in the short run
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feather bedding is
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The practice of keeping workers who are not needed
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In a Lorenz curve, if the bow is larger it denotes that
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A greater degree of inequality of income exists
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A perfectly competitive market needs
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all benefits of a good to go to consumers
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An industry under perfect competition has
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so many buyers and sellers that none can influence the price
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Demand curve slopes which way?
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downward
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Who does a moderate rate of inflation harm?
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people living on fixed incomes
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Net Exports
Definition
exports minus imports
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