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ECON 201 BORIS MID TERM BSU
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Economics
Undergraduate 1
11/04/2014

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Private cost of production
Definition
cost that is borne by the producer of a good or service
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marginal cost
Definition
cost of producing an additional unit of a good or service
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marginal private cost
Definition
cost of producing an additional unit of a good or service that is borne by the producer of that good or service
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external cost
Definition
cost of producing a good or service that is not borne by the producer but borne by other people
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marginal external cost
Definition
What someone other than the producer of a good or service must give up when the producer makes one more unit of an item.
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marginal social cost
Definition
marginal cost incurred by the entire society (by the producer and by everyone else, the sum of marginal private cost and marginal external cost)
MSC=MC+MARGINAL EXTERNAL COST
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property rights
Definition
legally established titles to the ownership use and disposal of factors of production and goods and services that are enforceable in the courts
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abatement technology
Definition
a technology that reduces or prevents pollution
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coase theorem
Definition
the proposition that if property rights exist and the costs of enforcing them are low, then the market outcome is efficient and it doesn't matter who has the property rights.
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