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MARGINAL UTILITY: The additional utility, or satisfaction of wants and needs, obtained from the consumption or use of an additional unit of a good. It is specified as the change in total utility divided by the change in quantity. Marginal utility indicates what each additional unit of a good is worth to a consumer.
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FLEXIBLE PRICES The proposition that prices adjust in the long run in response to market shortages or surpluses. This condition is most important for long-run macroeconomic activity and long-run aggregate market analysis. In particular, flexible prices are the key reason for the vertical slope of the long-run aggregate supply curve. This proposition is also central to the original classical theory of macroeconomics and to modern variations, including rational expectations, new classical theory, and supply-side economics.
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Today, you are likely to spend a great deal of time waiting for visits from door-to-door solicitors wanting to buy either several magazines on home repairs or a remote controlled sports car with an air spoiler. Be on the lookout for telephone calls from former employers.
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The Dow Jones family of stock market price indexes began with a simple average of 11 stock prices in 1884.
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"Every generation of Americans needs to know that freedom exists not in doing what we like, but in having the right to do what we ought. " -- Pope John Paul II
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CPI
Consumer Price Index
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