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Trade, Property Rights, and Economic Efficiency (Section 2)
Econ 201 (Section 2)
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Undergraduate 2
09/10/2018

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Opportunity cost (OC)
Definition
What you had to give up to do what you did
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Accounting profit
Definition
Total revenue - Total cost
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Economic profit
Definition
Earnings in excess of your 2nd best alternative
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Transaction cost
Definition
The time, effort, and other resources needed to search out, negotiate, and complete an exchange
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Tragedy of the commons
Definition
Common ownership leads people to use things without regard to others
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Production possibilities curve (PPC)
Definition
Shoes maximum amount of any two products that can be produced from a fixed set of resources and tradeoffs of producing them. Shows us what can be produced
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What is I?
Definition
Shows things that are inefficient
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What is C?
Definition
Possible and some combination
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What is W?
Definition
Everything that is impossible
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Why would the PPC shift outwards?
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An increase in resources
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Why would the PPC shift inwards?
Definition
A decrees in resources, product etc.
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What does the PPC mean if its rotating out?
Definition
There getting better at producing one good
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Law of increasing O.P
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The more of something that is produced the greater OC of producing one more unit
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Absolute advantage
Definition
The ability to produce units of a good or service using a given quantity of labor or resource inputs
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Comparative advantage
Definition
The ability to produce a good service at a lower opportunity cost that other producer
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Pure capitalism
Definition
Private ownership of resources and use of the system of markets and prices to coordinate and direct encore ic activity
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Socialism
Definition
Government ownership of all resources and the rendering of economic decisions through central economic planning
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Mixed system
Definition
Combination of both capitalism and socialism
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Microeconomics
Definition
One market
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Macroeconomics
Definition
Whole economy
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Marginal
Definition
Describes effects of a change in the current situation
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Marginal Cost (MC)
Definition
Change in total cost from dong something a little bit more or a little less
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Marginal Benefit (MB)
Definition
Change in total benefit from doing something a little bit more or a little less
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Marginal Cost to society (MCSOC)
Definition
Chance in total cose, considering all people in the world, from doing something a little bit more or a little less
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Marginal Benefit to society (MBSOC)
Definition
Chance in total benefit, considering all people in the world, from doing something a little bit more or a little less
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Net Benefit
Definition
Total Benefits - Total Costs
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Total Welfare (fot an individual market)
Definition
(net) benefit to society (in $) from the market existing
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Deadweight Loss (DWL)
Definition
Difference in total welfare between the market in its current form versus the economic efficient level (social optimal)
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