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DIVISION OF LABOR: A basic economic notion that labor resources are used more efficiently if work tasks are divided among different workers. This allows workers to specialize in production as each becomes highly skilled at specific tasks. Efficiency achieved through specialization and the division of labor was popularized by Adam Smith in his classic work, The Wealth of Nations. This division-of-labor notion is one of those concepts that is so fundamental to the economy that its importance is occasionally overlooked in the real world. It is, for example, essential to foreign trade. Without the division of labor the comfortable standard of living currently provided by our exceeding complex economic system would not be possible.
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MARGINAL REVENUE CURVE A curve that graphically represents the relation between the marginal revenue received by a firm for selling its output and the quantity of output sold. A firm maximizes profit by producing the quantity of output found at the intersection of the marginal revenue curve and marginal cost curve. The marginal revenue curve for a firm with no market control is horizontal. The marginal revenue curve for a firm with market control is negatively sloped and lies below the average revenue curve.
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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 looseleaf notebook paper or a three-hole paper punch. Be on the lookout for gnomes hiding in cypress trees.
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The penny is the only coin minted by the U.S. government in which the "face" on the head looks to the right. All others face left.
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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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