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2) Price elasticity of demand: A measure of how much the quantity demanded of a good
responds to a change in the price of that good. It is calculated as the percentage change
3) Total revenue: Is the amount paid by buyers and received by sellers of a good. This
amount is the price of the good times the quantity of goods sold.
a good with respect to the change in price of another good. It is calculated as the
percentage change in the demand of the first well, divided by the percentage change in
6) Price elasticity of supply:A measure of how much the quantity supplied responds to a
well on the change in the price of good. It is calculated as the percentage change in
7) Maximum price: The highest price at which you can legally sell a good price.
8) Minimal price: lowest price at which you can legally sell well.
10) Welfare economicsStudy of how the allocation of resources affects economic well-
being.
11) WTP: Maximum amount that a buyer will pay for a good.
12) Consumer surplus: Amount a buyer is willing to pay for a good minus the amount
actually paid.
13) cost: Value of all to what the seller resignation to produce a good.
14) Producer Surplus: Amount received by the seller for a good minus the cost incurred
to provide it.
15) EfficiencyThe property which has a resource allocation of maximizing the total surplus
16) EqualityOwned by economic prosperity distribute evenly among the various members
of society.
17) Deadweight loss: Reduced total surplus it produces a market distortion, as it is a tax.
18) world price: The price of a commodity prevailing in the world market for the asset.
19) Tariff: A tax on goods produced abroad and sold in the domestic market.
20) externality: Uncompensated effect of the actions of a person on the welfare of another.
21) Internalizing the externality: Change the incentives for people to take into account
22) corrective tax: Tax that is intended to induce the responsible individuals to make
23) Coase theorem: It proposes that if individuals can negotiate without cost resource
24) Transaction costs: Costs they incur the parties to the negotiation process to reach an
25) Exclusion: Ownership of property, according to which can prevent a person from using
it.
26) Rivalry in consumption: Property of a well according to which the use of a person
28) Public goods: goods that are neither exclusive nor rival in consumption.
29) Common resources: Goods that are rival in consumption, but are not exclusive.
30) Real reserved: Goods that are exclusive, but not rivals in consumption.
31) Parasite (free rider): A person who receives the benefit of a good but that evades the
payment.
32) Cost benefit analysis: Study comparing the costs and benefits to society of providing
a public good.
33) Tragedy of the Commons: It is a parable that illustrates why common resources are