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TOTAL FACTOR COST: The opportunity cost incurred when using a given factor of production to produce a good or service. Total factor cost should be compared with the related term, total cost. Total factor cost is the cost of using a specific factor, total cost is the cost of all factors of production. Total factor cost is predominately used in the analysis of the factor market.
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DEMAND DECREASE A decrease in the willingness and ability of buyers to purchase a good at the existing price, illustrated by a leftward shift of the demand curve. A decrease in demand is caused by a change in a demand determinant and results in a decrease in equilibrium quantity and a decrease in equilibrium price. A demand decrease is one of two demand shocks to the market. The other is a demand increase.
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A thousand years before metal coins were developed, clay tablet "checks" were used as money by the Babylonians.
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"What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals." -- Zig Ziglar
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JEP
Journal of Economic Perspectives
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