Lesson Plan

Long-Run Production and Costs




I. Long-Run Production and Costs

- definition of the long-run
- costs in the long-run
- what happens when use of another resource increases to the production curves?
- marginal and average productivity for other resources
- least cost production in the long-run
- the principle of equal marginal productivity per dollar spent
- what should a firm do if a resource's MP decreases? If its unit price increases?
- long-run average cost (LRAC)
- definition
- economies of scale
- diseconomies of scale
- constant returns to scale
- minimum efficient scale