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UNFAIR COMPETITION: A wide assortment of business practices that are deceptive and dishonest, and usually hamper competition. Examples of unfair competition include false or misleading advertising, price discrimination, bribery, and even industrial espionage. These practices and many, many more are illegal according to antitrust law, specifically the Federal Trade Commission Act (1914).
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DECREASING MARGINAL RETURNS In the short-run production of a firm, an increase in the variable input results in a decrease in the marginal product of the variable input. Decreasing marginal returns typically surface after the first few quantities of a variable input are added to a fixed input. This is one of two types of marginal returns. The other is increasing marginal returns. A related phenomenon is diseconomies of scale associated with long-run production.
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Today, you are likely to spend a great deal of time wandering around the downtown area looking to buy either an AC adapter that won't fry your computer or a case for your designer sunglasses. Be on the lookout for pencil sharpeners with an attitude.
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A thousand years before metal coins were developed, clay tablet "checks" were used as money by the Babylonians.
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"Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted. " -- Aldous Huxley, writer
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