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Economics Ch. 5 Flashcards

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472754145Supplydefined as the amount of a product that would be offered for sale at all possible prices that could prevail in the market
472754146Law of Supplythe principle that suppliers will normally offer more for sale at high prices and less at lower prices
472754147Supply curvea graph showing the various quantities supplied at each and every price that might prevail in the market
472754148Supply schedulea listing of the various quantities of a particular product supplied at all possible prices in the market
472754149Market supply curvethe supply curve that shows the quantities offered at various prices by all firms that offer the product for sale in a given market
472754150Quantity suppliedthe amount that producers bring to market at any given price
472754151Change in quantity suppliedthe change in amount offered for sale in response to a change in price
472754152Change in supplya situation where suppliers offer different amounts of products for sale at all possible prices in the market
472754153Subsidya government payment to an individual, business, or other group to encourage or protect a certain type of economic activity
472754154Supply elasticitya measure of the way in which quantity supplied responds to a change in price
472754155Theory of productiondeals with the relationship between the factors of production and the output of goods and services
472754156Short runa period of production that allows producers to change only the amount of the variable input called labor
472754157Long runa period of production long enough for producers to adjust the quantities of all their resources, including capital.
472754158Law of variable proportionsstates that output will change as one input is varied while the others are held constant
472754159Production functiona concept that describes the relationship between changes in output to different amounts of a single input while other inputs are held constant
472754160Raw materialsunprocessed natural products used in production
472754161Total producttotal output produced by the firm
472754162Marginal productthe extra output or change in total product caused by the addition of one more unit of variable input
472754163Stages of productionphases of production--increasing, decreasing, and negative returns
472754164Diminishing returnsthe stage where output increases at a diminishing rate as more units of a variable input are added
472754165Fixed costthe cost that a business incurs even if the plant is idle and output is zero
472754166Overheadtotal fixed cost
472754167Variable costcost that changes when the business rate of operation or output changes
472754168Total costthe sum of the fixed and variable costs
472754169Marginal costthe extra cost incurred when a business produces one additional unit of a product
472754170E-commerceelectronic business or exchange conducted over the Internet
472754171Total revenuethe number of units sold multiplied by the average price per unit
472754172Marginal revenuethe extra revenue associated with the production and sale of one additional unit of output
472754173Marginal analysisa type of cost-benefit decision making that compares the extra benefits to the extra costs of an action
472754174Break-even pointthe total output or total product the business needs to sell in order to cover its total costs
472754175Profit-maximizing quantity of outputreached when marginal cost and marginal revenue are equal

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