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Econ exam 1
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Dead Weight Loss | The reduction in economic surplus resulting from not being in a competative equilibrium |
| Marginal Benefit | The additional benefit to a consumer of consuming one more unit. |
| Marginal Cost | The additional cost in a firms total cost form profound 1 more Unit. |
| Economic Efficiency | A market outcome in which marginal benefit is equal to the marginal cost, and the sum of CS and PS is at a maximum. |
| Tax incident | The actual division of the burden of a tax between buyers and sellers in a market. |
| Economic Surplus | a market is the sum of CS and PS. |
| CS | The difference between the highest price a consumer is willing to pay and the price they actually pay. |
| Producer Surplus | The difference between the lowest price a firm is willing to accept and the price it actually receives |
| Price floor | A legally determined minimum price that sellers may recieves. |
| Price Ceiling | A legally determined maximum price that sellers may charge. |
| Market | A group of buyers and sellers of a good and the institution or arrangement by which they come together to trade. |
| Product Markets | Households are demanders and firms are suppliers. |
| Factor Markets | Markets for the factors of production. |
| Factors of production | the inputs used to make good and services. Labor, Capital, Natural resources, Entrepreneurship. |
| Circular flow | A model that illustrates how participants in the market are linked. |