Economic profit and opportunity costs
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The key difference is that economic profit factors in implicit costs (sometimes called opportunity costs). Just what do we mean by opportunity costs anyway?
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This explain the concept and interrelationship between Economic profit and opportunity costs
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Opportunity cost
The opportunity cost or alternative costs are the returns from the second best use of the organization's resources or here in this case the individual's capability.
For example a farmer who is producing wheat can also produce potatoes with the same factors.
Therefore the opportunity cost of a ...
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