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LIMITED RESOURCES: Finite quantities of labor, capital, land, and entrepreneurship available to an economy for the production of goods and services. This is one half of the fundamental problem of scarcity that has plagued humanity since the beginning of time. The other half of the scarcity problem is unlimited wants and needs.
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MONOPOLISTIC COMPETITION, EFFICIENCY A monopolistically competitive firm generally produces less output and charges a higher price than would be the case for a perfectly competitive firm. In particular, the price charged by a monopolistically competitive firm is higher than the marginal cost of production, which violates the efficiency condition that price equals marginal cost. A monopolistically competitive firm is inefficient because it has market control and faces a negatively-sloped demand curve.
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Today, you are likely to spend a great deal of time at a crowded estate auction trying to buy either storage boxes for your summer clothes or 500 feet of coaxial cable. Be on the lookout for slow moving vehicles with darkened windows.
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The portion of aggregate output U.S. citizens pay in taxes (30%) is less than the other six leading industrialized nations -- Britain, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, or Japan.
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"A man is not finished when he is defeated. He is finished when he quits. " -- President Richard Nixon
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Games and Economic Behavior
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