Why Does the Short-Run Aggregate Supply Curve Slope Upward

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Essay

Why does the short-run aggregate supply curve slope upward?

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Definitions:

Competitive Price-taker Market

A market structure where sellers accept the market price as given, having no control over it due to perfect competition.

Long-run Equilibrium

A state in which all factors of production and costs are variable, allowing firms to enter or exit the market, ultimately resulting in no economic profit for the firms in a perfectly competitive market.

Zero Economic Profit

A situation where a firm's total revenue is exactly equal to its total costs, including opportunity costs.

Constant Cost

A situation where the cost of producing one additional unit of a good or service is the same, regardless of the volume produced.