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HOW?: One of three basic questions of allocation (What? and For Whom? are the other two). Answering the "How?" question of allocation determines how society's limited resources will be combined in the production goods. Do we produce houses with wood or bricks? Do we make cars with automated robots or human labor?
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FACTOR DEMAND The willingness and ability of productive activities (usually, business firms) to hire or employ factors of production. Factor demand relates factor price and factor quantity, specifically, it is the range of factor quantities that are demanded at a range of factor prices. This is one half of the factor market. The other half is factor supply. The factors of production subject to factor demand include any and all of the four scarce resources--labor, capital, land, and entrepreneurship. However, because labor involves human beings directly, it is the factor that tends to receive the most scrutiny and analysis.
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Today, you are likely to spend a great deal of time surfing the Internet seeking to buy either a package of 3 by 5 index cards, the ones without lines or a blue mechanical pencil. Be on the lookout for telephone calls from former employers.
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Okun's Law posits that the unemployment rate increases by 1% for every 2% gap between real GDP and full-employment real GDP.
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"The truth is not for all men, but only for those who seek it. " -- Ayn Rand, writer
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