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BENEFIT-COST RATIO: The benefit of an activity per dollar of cost. Benefit-cost ratios (or alternatively cost-benefit ratios) are frequently estimated for many forms of government spending, as well as a growing number of business investments. This technique was originally developed to determine if public investment projects, like dams, public parks, highways, etc., were worth doing. The logic is simple -- If benefits are greater than costs, then the project is worthwhile, if they are less, then it isn't.
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PERFECT COMPETITION, SHORT-RUN SUPPLY CURVE A perfectly competitive firm's supply curve is that portion of its marginal cost curve that lies above the minimum of the average variable cost curve. A perfectly competitive firm maximizes profit by producing the quantity of output that equates price and marginal cost. As such, the firm moves along its positively-sloped marginal cost curve in response to changing prices.
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BROWN PRAGMATOX
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Today, you are likely to spend a great deal of time searching for a specialty store seeking to buy either a package of 4 by 6 index cards, the ones with lines or a 50 foot extension cord. Be on the lookout for strangers with large satchels of used undergarments.
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Two and a half gallons of oil are needed to produce one automobile tire.
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"Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat." -- F. Scott Fitzgerald, writer
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WFTU
World Federation of Trade Unions
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