Economics - Production, Costs, and Revenue

Cards (12)

  • Production
    The total output of goods and services produced by an individual firm or country
  • Productivity
    A measurement of the rate of production by one or more factors of production
  • Productivity
    • measure of how efficient an individual worker, firm or country is generating an output
    • could be defined as the output per factor of production employed per unit of tiem
  • Productivity
    • total output per period of time/ number of units of factor of production
  • Labour Productivity
    • total output per period of time/ number of units of labour
    • output per worker per unit of time
  • Specialisation
    Where an individual worker, firm, region or country produces a limited range of goods or services
  • Division of Labour
    specialisation at the level of an individual worker
  • Exchange
    where one thing is traded for something else
  • Short Run
    a period of time in which the availability of at least one factor of production is fiexed
  • Long Run
    a period of time over which all factors of production can be varied
  • Fixed Costs
    costs of production that do not vary with the level of output in the short run
  • Variable Cost
    costs of production that vary with the level of output