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  2. Price elasticity of supply - Wikipedia

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    For example, availability may cap the amount of gold that can be produced in a country regardless of price. Likewise, the price of Van Gogh paintings is unlikely to affect their supply. [5] Length and complexity of production Much depends on the complexity of the production process. Textile production is relatively simple.

  3. Goods - Wikipedia

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    For example, textiles or transistors can be used to make some further goods. Commercial goods are construed as tangible products that are manufactured and then made available for supply to be used in an industry of commerce. Commercial goods could be tractors, commercial vehicles, mobile structures, airplanes, and even roofing materials.

  4. Utility maximization problem - Wikipedia

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    Examples of alternatives to utility maximisation due to bounded rationality are; satisficing, elimination by aspects and the mental accounting heuristic. The satisficing heuristic is when a consumer defines an aspiration level and looks until they find an option that satisfies this, they will deem this option good enough and stop looking.

  5. Inferior good - Wikipedia

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    In economics, inferior goods are those goods the demand for which falls with increase in income of the consumer. So, there is an inverse relationship between income of the consumer and the demand for inferior goods. [1] There are many examples of inferior goods, including cheap cars, public transit options, payday lending, and

  6. Production (economics) - Wikipedia

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    Improving product competitiveness often means lower prices and to the producer lower producer income, to be compensated with higher sales volume. Economic well-being also increases due to income gains from increasing production. Market production is the only production form that creates and distributes incomes to stakeholders.

  7. Goods and services - Wikipedia

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    Goods are items that are usually (but not always) tangible, such as pens or apples. Services are activities provided by other people, such as teachers or barbers.Taken together, it is the production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services which underpins all economic activity and trade.

  8. Common good (economics) - Wikipedia

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    Wild fish are an example of common goods. They are non-excludable, as it is impossible to prevent people from catching fish. They are, however, rivalrous, as the same fish cannot be caught more than once. Common goods (also called common-pool resources [1]) are defined in economics as goods that are rivalrous and non-excludable. Thus, they ...

  9. List of unsolved problems in economics - Wikipedia

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    Transformation problem: The transformation problem is the problem specific to Marxist economics, and not to economics in general, of finding a general rule by which to transform the values of commodities based on socially necessary labour time into the competitive prices of the marketplace. The essential difficulty is how to reconcile profit in ...