Economics: Principles, Problems, and Policies, 19th Edition

Published by McGraw-Hill Education
ISBN 10: 0073511447
ISBN 13: 978-0-07351-144-3

Chapter 7 - Businesses and the Costs of Production - Questions - Page 160: 2

Answer

Accounting Profit: (Total revenue - Explicit Costs) Economic Profit: (Accounting Profit - Implicit Costs) Normal Profit: Average accounting profit for someone in your field Economic profit determines how entrepreneurs allocate resources because they will always pick the option which nets them the most money.

Work Step by Step

Explicit costs are the sum of all the business expenses. Implicit costs are opportunity costs of money, such as interest on savings and normal profit.
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