A reader on twitter asked – How has government borrowing helped me recently? I’m tempted to paraphrase as – What has borrowing ever done for me? – just so that I can make a reference to Monty Python and the Life of Brian? – And what have the Romans ever done for us? – apart …
New Keynesianism refers to a branch of Keynesian economics which places greater stress on microeconomic foundations to explain macro-economic disequilibrium. A key element of new Keynesianism is the role of wage rigidities and price rigidities to explain the persistence of unemployment and macro economic disequilibrium. New Keynesianism combines elements of traditional Keynesianism (sometimes referred to …
Readers Question: Why doesn’t WTO make into law that all manufactured goods should either be assembled or made in the continent where its been sold? There is so many reason why this should be put in place in our globalised world I don’t agree. The benefits of a globalised world are that we can benefit …
I’m off to New York on Wednesday, I’m tempted to stay until May 8th, so I can miss the UK General election campaigning, which so far has been quite depressing for the poor quality of economic debate. This is just an outline of some issues for consideration. I may expand upon these in the coming …
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A missing market is a type of market failure. A missing market means that there is some obstruction to an efficient free market which would enable a Pareto efficient distribution of resources but for various reasons this market doesn’t exist.
Definition of Marginal Cost Marginal Cost is the cost of producing an extra unit. It is the addition to Total Cost from selling one extra unit. Q Total Cost (TC) Marginal Cost (MC) Average Cost (AC) 1 10 10 10 2 16 6 8 3 23 7 7.6 4 32 9 8 5 45 …
Horizontal integration occurs when there is a merger between two firms in the same industry operating at the same stage of production. For example, if two newspapers like the Independent and the Guardian merged, this would be a horizontal integration. Horizontal integration is different to vertical integration which occurs when firms at different stages of …