Supply Supply Changes and Elasticity Production Function Profit Maximization Demand
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What is Supply?
The amount of a product that would be offered at all possible prices that could prevail in the market
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What is a Change in Quantity Supplied?
The change in amount offered for sale in response to a change in price
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What is the Theory of Production?
The relationship between the factors of production and the output of goods and services
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What are the Measures of Cost?
Fixed (or overhead), variable, total, and marginal
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What is Demand?
The desire, ability, and willingness to buy a product
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What is the Law of Supply?
This economic principle says that suppliers will normally offer more for sale at high prices and less at lower prices
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What is a Change in Supply?
When suppliers offer different amounts of products for sale at all possible prices in the market?
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What is the Law of Variable Proportions?
This states that, in the short run, output will change as one input is varied while the others are held constant
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What are the Measures of Revenue?
Total and marginal only
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What is the Law of Demand?
This states that the quantity demanded of a good or service varies inversely with its price
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What is a Supply Schedule?
A listing of the various quantities of a particular product supplied at all possible prices in the market
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What are the Change in Supply?
Cost of inputs, productivity, technology, taxes and subsidies, expectations, government regulations, and number of sellers can each cause this
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What is a Production Function?
This schedule and graph illustrate the Law of Variable Proportions
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What is Marginal Analysis?
A type of cost-benefit decision making that compares the extra benefits to the extra costs of an action
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What is a Change in Demand?
Consumer income, consumer tastes, substitutes, complements, change in expectations, and number of consumers can each cause this?
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What is a Supply Curve?
A graph showing the various quantities supplied at each and every price that might prevail in the market
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What is Supply Elasticity?
a measure of the way in which quantity supplied responds to a change in price, of which there are 3 types
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What is Marginal Product
The extra output or change in total product caused by the addition of one more unit of variable input (usually workers)
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What is the Break-Even Point?
The total output or total product the business needs to sell in order to cover its total cost
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What is Demand Elasticity?
The extent to which a change in price causes a change in the quantity demanded
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What is a Market Supply Curve?
This shows the quantities offered at various prices by all firms that offer the product for sale in a given market
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What are the Determinants of Supply Elasticity?
Unlike demand, these are production considerations only
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What are the Stages of Production?
Increasing returns, diminishing returns, and negative returns occur during these
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What is the Profit-Maximizing Quantity of Output?
This is reached when marginal cost and marginal revenue are equal?
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What is a Total Expenditures Test?
Looking at the impact of a price change on the amount that consumers spend on a product at a particular price is also known as this






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