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Microeconomics 7

The Cost of Production

The Cost of Production


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accounting cost

Actual expenses plus depreciation charges for capital equipment.

economic cost

Cost to a firm of utilizing economic resources in production, including opportunity cost.

opportunity cost

Cost associated with opportunities that are forgone when a firm’s resources are not put to their best alternative use.

sunk cost

Expenditure that has been made and cannot be recovered.

total cost (TC or C)

Total economic cost of production, consisting of fixed and variable costs.

fixed cost (FC)

Cost that does not vary with the level of output and that can be eliminated only by shutting down.

variable cost (VC)

Cost that varies

as output varies.

amortization

Policy of treating a one-time expenditure as an annual cost spread out over some number of years.