Describe Some of the Lessons Learned from the Global Financial

question 26

Essay

Describe some of the lessons learned from the Global Financial Crisis (GFC).

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Definitions:

Production Possibilities

Different combinations of goods and services that an economy can produce efficiently with its available resources and technology.

Diminishing Returns

The principle stating that as investment in a particular area increases, the rate of profit from that investment, after a certain point, cannot continue to increase if other variables remain constant.

Marginal Product

The increase in output resulting from a one-unit increase in the input of a production factor, holding all other inputs constant.

Marginal Product

The additional output resulting from one more unit of a given input, holding all other inputs constant.