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X-INEFFICIENCY: Cost that is higher than it needs to be because a firm is operating inefficiently. This is most often seen for firms that have a great deal of market control, especially monopoly. The lack of competition allows a business to pad it's expenses, hire unneeded employees (like relatives), goof off instead of working, and all sorts of other things that lessen production and increase cost. The business is not penalized for these actions, because market control allows the company to extract whatever price is needed to cover cost.
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LONG-RUN INDUSTRY SUPPLY CURVE The relation between market price and the quantity supplied by all firms in a perfectly competitive industry after the industry has completed its long-run adjustment. The long-run industry supply curve effectively traces out a series of equilibrium prices and quantities that reflect long-run adjustments of a perfectly competitive industry to demand shocks. This long-run adjustment can take one of three paths, indicating an increasing-cost industry, a decreasing-cost industry, and a constant-cost industry.
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Today, you are likely to spend a great deal of time watching the shopping channel trying to buy either storage boxes for your family photos or a large, stuffed giraffe. Be on the lookout for florescent light bulbs that hum folk songs from the sixties.
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The first U.S. fire insurance company was established by Benjamin Franklin in 1752 in Philadelphia.
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"Habit is a cable; we weave a thread of it each day, and at last we cannot break it. " -- Horace Mann, educator
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