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accounting profit
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total revenue - explicit costs
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economic profit
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a firm's total revenue minus its explicit and implicit costs
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normal profit
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the payment made by a firm to obtain and retain entrepreneurial ability
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marginal cost
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the cost of producing one more unit of a good
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paradox of value
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apparent contradiction between the high value of a nonessential item and the low value of an essential item
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explicit costs
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The actual payments a firm makes to its factors of production and other suppliers.
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implicit costs
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Indirect, non-purchased, or opportunity costs of resources provided by the entrepreneur
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economies of scale
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factors that cause a producer's average cost per unit to fall as output rises
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diseconomies of scale
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the property whereby long-run average total cost rises as the quantity of output increases