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ALLOCATIVE EFFICIENCY: Obtaining the most consumer satisfaction from available resources. Allocative efficiency means that our economy is doing the best job possible of satisfying unlimited wants and needs with limited resources -- that is, of addressing the problem of scarcity.
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MARGINAL FACTOR COST CURVE A curve that graphically represents the relation between marginal factor cost incurred by a firm for hiring an input and the quantity of input employed. A profit-maximizing firm hires the quantity of input found at the intersection of the marginal factor cost curve and marginal revenue product curve. The marginal factor cost curve for a firm with no market control is horizontal. The marginal factor cost curve for a firm with market control is positively sloped and lies above the average factor cost curve.
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BLACK DISMALAPOD [What's This?]
Today, you are likely to spend a great deal of time touring the new suburban shopping complex trying to buy either a T-shirt commemorating the second moon landing or a coffee cup commemorating Thor Heyerdahl's Pacific crossing aboard the Kon-Tiki. Be on the lookout for defective microphones. Your Complete Scope
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Approximately three-fourths of the U.S. paper currency in circular contains traces of cocaine.
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"The world is not dangerous because of those who do harm but because of those who look at it without doing anything. " -- Albert Einstein, physicist
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IRR Internal Rate of Return
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