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NORMATIVE ECONOMICS: The branch of economics that states the way the economy should operate. A normative statement is based on values and can be proved neither right or wrong. While positive economics seeks to explain the way it is, normative economics, the policy side of economics, seeks to prescribe the way it should be. Normative economics is used to recommend ways to change the world, to improve it, and to make it a better place for both man and beast.
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MARGINAL COST AND LAW OF DIMINISHING MARGINAL RETURNS Decreasing then increasing marginal cost, reflected by a U-shaped marginal cost curve, is the result of increasing then decreasing marginal returns. In particular the decreasing marginal returns is caused by the law of diminishing marginal returns. As such, the law of diminishing marginal returns affects not only the short-run production of a firm but also the cost of short-run production. This translates into a positively-sloped supply curve for profit-maximizing competitive firms.
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Today, you are likely to spend a great deal of time at a crowded estate auction looking to buy either software that won't crash your computer or any book written by Stephan King. Be on the lookout for poorly written technical manuals.
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The portrait on the quarter is a more accurate likeness of George Washington than that on the dollar bill.
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"No man, for any considerable time, can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude without finally getting bewildered as to which may be true." -- Nathanial Hawthorne, Author
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TVC
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