ECON312 Week 3 Discussion Latest 2019 january Question # 00597330 Course Code : ECON312 Subject: Economics Due on: 01/29/2019 Posted On: 01/29/2019 09:47 AM Tutorials: 1 Rating: 4.6/5

ECON312
Principles of Economics

Week 3
Discussion

MARKET STRUCTURE AND PROFIT MAXIMIZATION

Initial Post (up to 10 points)

Suppliers such as your local water suppliers, railroad,
restaurants, coffee shops, hairdressers, artists, gas stations, movie theaters,
airlines, universities, and so forth, operate under different market structures.
All businesses exist for one purpose, which is to make profits. Profits or
losses occur as a result of interaction between cost of production and market
price. Higher production could lead to higher revenue; however, higher prices
reduce quantity demanded and might lead to higher cost of production. In sum,
suppliers and producers will make profit only when average total cost of
production is lower than market price.

For your initial post, answer one of the following
questions.

Provide an example of a firm or a small business from the
real world that is surviving the dynamic nature of monopolistic competition,
and discuss some approaches they have used (or are currently using) to compete
and survive in the market.

Provide an example or a scenario from your personal (or
professional) experience, an observation, a story that you have read, or an
idea or thought that you might have for practical, creative, and/or effective
ways to minimize production costs in order to maximize profits.

Multimedia Post (up to 15 points)

Create a short 1- to 2-minute slide presentation with a
voice narration or a video using any technology you are comfortable with to
explain one of the economic concepts listed below. Suggestions: Adobe Spark
Page (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site. with a Spark Video,
Kaltura video post, or a narrated PowerPoint.

Start the presentation by introducing yourself (name and
your topic of choice), then give a brief explanation of at least one of the
concepts listed below, including an example to support your presentation.

Fixed costs versus variable costs

Explicit costs versus implicit costs

Accounting profits versus economic profits

Marginal cost and marginal revenue

Production maximization output

Optimum level of output

Monopolistic competition

Perfect competition

Law of dimensioning return to labor

Peer Response Post (up to 10 points)

Respond to at least one of your peers’ initial posts or
multimedia posts.

Your response should add new facts, ideas, knowledge, and/or
corrections to the initial post or the multimedia post. Also, provide examples
to support your response post.