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Summary Economics: A Southern African Context, 3e - EKN110 - Chapter 4

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These notes are an in-depth summary of Chapter 4 in the textbook: Economics: A Southern African Context, 3e. In these notes the cost of production is explained in great detail including the explicit and implicit costs as well as short and long run costs. Fixed and variable costs are also covered as well as economies of scale. Many pictures and diagrams are included to make the notes easy to understand .

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, key concepts




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H
·
economic/opportunity costs ·
fixed costs


·

explicit costs ·
variable costs



·
implicit costs ·
total costs




S
· normal profit Average fixed cost (AFC)


(Avc
econonomic profit Average variable cost
·
·




total cost (ATC)
Average
·




S
·
economies of scale


·
diseconomies of scale



constant returns to scale


· minimum efficient scale (MESY




costs


Economic ExplicitCosts Crevealed and expressed
Costs

Opportunity costs ·

monetary payments a firm makes to those

who supply- labour services

materials
↳ payments a firm must make or
·




it fuel
must provide to T
·


income

it needs
·
transportation services
attract resources away
from alternative production
opportunities These monetary payments are for

the use of resources owned by others
↳ The measure of economic costs

of any resource used to
These listed
· costs are in
accounting records
produce a
good
is the value/worth the resource

would have in its best alt . use


Implicit CostS (present but not obvious


society combination
when uses a The opportunity cost of
using
of resources to produce a
particular
self-owned self employed resources
product , it
forgoes all alternative ,



opportunities to use those resources Ah
for other
purposes
·

Money payments that self-employed resources


could of earned in their best alt .
uses



scare
productive ·
costs not listed in
accounting records .




↳ costs exist be resources are have alt. uses

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J. van Rensburg, Campbell McConnell, Stanley Brue, Sean Flynn EBOOK: Economics: A Southern African Context, 3e
Publisher: 2021 ISBN: 9781526848734 Edition: Unknown

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