Production, costs and revenue Flashcards

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Define factors of production

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inputs into the production process, such as land, labour, capital and enterprise

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What is land in the fop

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the part of the earth’s cust which the firm owns or hires

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What is labour in the fop

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all people employed by the firm who are paid wages or salaries

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what is capital in the fop

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the captial goods which the firm owns or hires

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what is entrepreneurs in the fop

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the people who decide what to produce, how to produce, for whom to produce it.

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What is labour productvity

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output per worker

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what is capital productivity

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output per unit of capital

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What is a firm

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it is a business enterprise that either produces or deals in and exchanges goods or services

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What is specialisation

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a worker only performing one task or a narrow range of tasks
or..
different firms specialising in producing different goods or services

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what is the division of labour

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different workers perform different tasks in the course of producing a good or service

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What happenes when a specialisaton occurs

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  • a worker will not need to switch between tasks so saves time
  • more and better machinery
  • practice makes perfect
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12
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what is the marginal returns of labour

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changing the amount of output which leads to one more worker

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13
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What is the difference between trade and exchange

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trade is the buying and selling of goods and services
exchange is to give something in return for something else

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what is the law of diminishing marginal returns/law of diminishing marginal productivity

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states that as a variable factor of production is added to a fixed factor of production, both the marginal and eventually the average returns will begin to fall

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15
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what is marginal returns

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adding an additional factor of production results in smaller increases in output

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16
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what is average revenue

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the revenue that is earned per unit of output

17
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what is meant by the term ‘returns to scale’

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the rate by which output changes if the scale of all the factors of production is changes

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What is a plant in economics

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an establishment, such as a factory, a workshop or a retailed outlet, owned and operated by a firm

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what are the 3 ‘returns to scale’

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increasing returns to scale
decreasing returns to scale
constant returns to scale

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what is increasing returns to scale

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when an increase in the scale of all the factors of production causes a more than proportionate increase in output

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what is a constant returns to scale

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when an increase in the scale of all the factors of production causes the same proportionate increase in output

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what is decreasing returns to scale

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when an increase in the scale of all the factors of production causes a less than proportionate increase in output

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what is the formula for (average) total cost

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(average) total cost= (average) total fixed cost + (average) total variable cost

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what is fixed cost

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cost of production which in the short run does not change with output

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what is variable cost
cost of production which changes with the amount that is produced, even in the short run
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what is economies of scale
a fall in long run average costs of production from an increase in size of a firm
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what is diseconomies of scale
an increasing long run average cost of production from an increase in a size of a firm
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what is the difference between internal economies of scale and external
internal is from the firm and external is from the growth of a market or industry which the firm is part of
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what is the formula for average revenue
total revenue/output
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what is the formula for marginal revenue
change in total revenue/ change in output
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what is the formula for total profit
total revenue-total costs
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what is profit maximisation
occurs at the level of output at which total profit is greatest
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what is the difference betwteen normal profit and abnormal/supernormal profit
normal profit is the minimum to stay in business abnormal is when profit is above normal
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what is technological change
used to describe the effect of invention and the spread of technology in the economy
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what is productive efficiency
centres on minimising average costs of production
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what is dynamic efficiency
measure the extent to which productive efficiency increases over time
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what is monopolistic competition
a market structure in which firms have many competitors, but each sells a slightly different product
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what is duopoly
two firms only in a market
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what is creative destruction
evolving and renewing itself over time through new technologies and innovation replacing old ones