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ECONOMIC PROFIT: The difference between business revenue and total opportunity cost. This is the revenue received by a business over and above the minimum needed to produce a good. In this sense, economic profit is a sign of inefficiency. If a business receives an economic profit, then society (the buyers) are spending more on a good than society (the resource owners) are giving up to produce the good.
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CONSUMPTION RIVALRY Whether or not the consumption of a particular good by one person prevents simultaneous consumption by another person. In other words, does consumption impose an opportunity cost on others. Rival consumption occurs if the consumption by one imposes an opportunity cost on others because others are prevented from consuming the good. Nonrival consumption occurs if the consumption by one does not impose an opportunity cost on others because others are not prevented from consuming the good. When combined with nonpayer excludability, the result is four alternative types of goods -- private, public, common-property, and near-public.
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Today, you are likely to spend a great deal of time at the confiscated property police auction seeking to buy either a small, foam rubber football or an instructional DVD on learning to the play the oboe. Be on the lookout for strangers with large satchels of used undergarments.
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A half gallon milk jug holds about $50 in pennies.
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"Success is going from failure to failure without a loss of enthusiasm. " -- Winston Churchill, British statesman
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American Institute for Foreign Trade
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