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SCARCE RESOURCE: A resource with an available quantity less than its desired use. Scarce resources are also called factors of production. Scarce goods are also termed economic goods. Scarce resources are used to produce scarce goods. Like the more general society-wide condition of scarcity, a given resource is scarce because it has a limited availability in combination with a greater (potentially unlimited) productive use. It's both of these that make it scarce. In other words, even though an item is quite limited it will not be a scarce resource if it has few if any uses (think pocket lint and free good).
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PERFECT COMPETITION, PROFIT MAXIMIZATION A perfectly competitive firm is presumed to produce the quantity of output that maximizes economic profit--the difference between total revenue and total cost. This production decision can be analyzed directly with economic profit, by identifying the greatest difference between total revenue and total cost, or by the equality between marginal revenue and marginal cost.
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Today, you are likely to spend a great deal of time watching infomercials hoping to buy either a stretchable, flexible watch band or high-gloss photo paper that works with your printer. Be on the lookout for fairy dust that tastes like salt.
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Only 1% of the U.S. population paid income taxes when the income tax was established in 1914.
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"In a time of drastic change, it is the learners who inherit the future. " -- Eric Hoffer, philosopher
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