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QUASI-RENT: The payment that is received by a resource of production activity over the opportunity cost in the short run. The notion of quasi-rent is similar to economic rent, or economic profit, which is payment or revenue received over opportunity cost. The key difference is that quasi-rent is a short-run phenomenon. While quasi-rent is "extra" payment received in the short run, such payment might be essential to keep the resource or production activity in the long run. An example is the quasi-rent received due to the patent on a technological innovation. In the short run, the revenue received can be considered as profit in excess of the opportunity cost of production. However, in the long run this extra revenue motivates innovators to develop new technology. Without quasi-rent the innovations would not occur.
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COST-PUSH INFLATION Inflation of the economy's average price induced by decreases in aggregate supply that result from increases in production cost. This type of inflation occurs when the cost of using any of the four factors of production (labor, capital, land, or entrepreneurship) increases such that aggregate supply cannot satisfy aggregate demand. The alternative type of inflation is demand-pull inflation.
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Today, you are likely to spend a great deal of time at a dollar discount store hoping to buy either looseleaf notebook paper or a three-hole paper punch. Be on the lookout for mail order catalogs with hidden messages.
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The word "fiscal" is derived from a Latin word meaning "moneybag."
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"Success is more a function of consistent common sense than it is of genius. " -- An Wang, industrialist
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IIPF
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