What Was the "Virtuous Cycle" of the Eighteenth Century

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Essay

What was the "virtuous cycle" of the eighteenth century?

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Definitions:

SAC Curves

Short-run average cost curves represent how a firm's average costs vary with output in the short term.

LAC Curves

Long Average Cost curves, which show the minimum average cost of production at different levels of output, assuming all production factors are variable.

Output Levels

The quantities of goods or services produced by a firm or industry at a given time or under certain conditions.

Economies of Scale

The economic gains achieved by businesses because of their large scale, volume of production, or extent of operations, which usually results in a reduction in the cost per unit as the scale of operation grows.