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ECON Ch9

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Economic cost   A payment that must be made to obtain and retain the services of a resource; the income a firm must provide to a resource supplier to attract the resource away from an alternative use  
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Explicit cost   The monetary payment made by a firm to an outsider to obtain a resource  
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Implicit cost   The monetary income a firm sacrifices when it uses a resource it owns rather than supplying the resource in the market; equal to what the resource could have earned in the best-paying alternative employment; includes a normal profit  
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Accounting profit   The total revenue of a firm after its explicit costs; the profit (or net income) that appears on an accounting statements and that is reported to the government for tax purposes  
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Normal profit   The payment made by a firm to obtain and retain entrepreneurial ability; the minimum income that entrepreneurial ability must receive to induce entrepreneurs to provide their entrepreneurial ability to a firm  
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Economic profit   The return flowing to those who provide the economy with the economic resource of entrepreneurial ability; the total revenue of a firm after its economic costs (which includes both explicit and implicit costs); also called pure profit/above-normal profit  
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Short run   In microeconomics, a period of time in which producers are able to change the quantities of some but not all of the resources they employ; a period in which some resources (usually plant) are fixed and some are variable  
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Long run   In microeconomics, a period of time long enough to enable producers of a product to change the quantities of all the resources they employ, so that all resources and costs are variable and no resources or costs are fixed  
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Total product (TP)   The total output of a particular good or service produced by a firm (or a group of firms or the entire economy)  
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Marginal product (MP)   The additional output produced when 1 additional unit of a resource is employed (the quantity of all other resources employed remaining constant); =the change in total product over change in the quantity of a resource employed  
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Average product (AP)   The total output produced per unit of a resource employed (total product divided by the quantity of that resource employed)  
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Law of diminishing returns   The principle that as successive increments of a variable resource are added to a fixed resource, the marginal product of the variable resource will eventually decrease  
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