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RIGID PRICES: The proposition that some prices adjust slowly in response to market shortages or surpluses. This condition is most important for macroeconomic activity in the short run and short-run aggregate market analysis. In particular, rigid (also termed inflexible or sticky) prices are a key reason underlying the positive slope of the short-run aggregate supply curve. Prices tend to be the most rigid in resource markets, especially labor markets, and the least rigid in financial markets, with product markets falling somewhere in between.
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PERFECT COMPETITION, TOTAL ANALYSIS A perfectly competitive firm produces the profit-maximizing quantity of output that generates the greatest difference between total revenue and total cost. This total approach is one of three methods that used to determine the profit-maximizing quantity of output. The other two methods involve the direct analysis of economic profit or a comparison of marginal revenue and marginal cost.
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Today, you are likely to spend a great deal of time looking for the new strip mall out on the highway looking to buy either a package of blank rewritable CDs or yellow cotton balls. Be on the lookout for broken fingernail clippers.
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Much of the $15 million used by the United States to finance the Louisiana Purchase from France was borrowed from European banks.
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"After climbing a great hill, one finds many more hills to climb. " -- Nelson Mandela, president of South Africa
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NYCE
New York Cotton Exchange
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