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Resource pricing is important because:
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Resource prices are a major determinant of money incomes, allocation of scarce resources among alternant users, and are important to firms in minimizing costs.
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Give an example of derived demand
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decline in demand for shoes will cause the demand for leather to decline
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What do economists mean when they say that the demand for labor is a derived demand?
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relation to the demand for the product or service labor is producing
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The demand for a resource depends primarily on:
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the demand for the product or service that it helps produce.
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MRP measures the what?
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amount by which the extra production of one more worker increases a firm's total revenue.
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Marginal Revenue product schedule is
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the firm's resource demand schedule
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A profit-maximizing firm employs resources to the point where:
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MRP=MRC
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Other things equal, the resource demand curve of an imperfectly competitive seller will:
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be less elastic than that of a purely competitive seller.
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The MRP curve is the resource demand curve for:
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both the purely competitive and imperfectly competitive seller.