microeconomics final tomorrow

A price cap is a ceiling above which regulators do not permit prices to rise. The cap is designed to provide an efficiency incentive to the firm my allowing it to keep part of any savings in costs it can achieve.

Cross-subsidization means selling one product of the firm at a loss, which is balanced by higher profits on another of the firm's products.

Antitrust policy refers to programs and laws that preclude the deliberate creation of monopoly ad prevent powerful firms from engaging in related "anticompetitive practices."

Monopoly power (or market power) is the ability of a business firm to earn high profits by raising the prices of is products above competitive levels and to keep those prices high for a substantial amount of time.

Input-output analysis is a mathematical procedure that takes account of the interdependence among the economy's industries and determines the amount of output each industry must provide as inputs to the other industries in the economy.

An activity is said to generate a beneficial or detrimental externality if that activity causes incidental benefits or damages to others not directly involved in the activiy and no corresponding compensastion is provided to or paid by those who generate the externality.

Public goods cannot be financed by private enterprise, or at least not at socially desirable prices.

Happy Monday

I had kimchee. Today is a good day.

Cydwoq Shoes (Or as I like to call them elf shoes)

A "few" of my favorites...I absolutely love how I can totally see a character in Lord of the Rings or Cinderella or some Victorian novel wearing them

1st 2: Mona Lisa Smile shoes

3rd: Cinderella or Jane Austen

Last 2: The elf shoes. The pointed toe...the simple winding elastic, the "dirty" color, yes.

I'm usually not into patterned shoes but these floral ones are growing on me. Ahhh I don't know which one's my favorite though. The contours of the 3rd one just kills me.

So gorgeous...but I can't look at their site too long otherwise I'll want them all...

Shirt masquerading as Dress shattered my heart/I'm dumb/ No snappy title here

I saw this picture in google images and was all :) :) :). Thought it was a rigid mini/tee dress and the tan parts were gold flocking and I was like, happiness! sunshine! lollipops!

But then I realized it was a printed t-shirt from blood is the new black. And then I was like broken heart. flooding tears. torrential rain.

Yeah it's awesome as well, but it's not the same.

So someone needs to get on it and make this (as of now nonexistent) dress for me.

Stomach for Shimmer Satisfied

at French Connection. I wish it was a little lighter though, more silvery gray, less black.

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eh, saw the dress in person, pretty flimsy and not that shimmery. And I'm kinda over the metallic thing now.

Amoeba Pair

Amoeba Pair

Originally uploaded by kristyfruition

A pair of complementing amoeba from my Macro/Micro organisms series. The melted glass is meant to emulate both cytoplasm and swirling galaxies.

wahh

I have so many movies I need to watch and rewatch it makes me want to cry. Part of me wants to go with the flow and watch each one as it organically comes into my presence. But I like my (exponentially elongating) list, too.

Just some of them (or I guess most of them)

1. All Tim Burton Movies (especially Scissorhands, Big Fish, and Nightmare and excluding the Batman ones--those are for another session)

2. Batman to Batman & Robin

3. Alfred Hitchcock

4. Miyazaki

Misc.

1. the conformist

2. synechdoche ny

3. reconstruction

4. being john malkovich

5. dogville

6. No country for old men

7. whip it cute. girl power. very drew barrymore

8. invention of lying

9. Monty Python and the Holy Grail

10. coco before chanel

11. across the universe

12. science of sleep (rewatch)

13. ghost world

14. napoleon dynamite

15. harold and maude

16. the lovely bones

17. invictus

18. up in the air

19. coraline

20. Princess Frog

21. Persepolis

22. House of Sand and Fog

23. Fantastic Mr. Fox so. awesome. like a carnivore version of chicken run.  definitely in the top 10 favorites.

24. Darjeeling Limited
25. In the Mood for Love

now what I don't have is a list of books. I'd still like to keep that rather spontaneous--or at least not jinx it by putting it on paper.

I read the plot summary of Hard Candy (bad of me). I will not be watching that anytime soon.

now this need to watch list makes me want to make a already did watch list of movies-- just to cross them off. Time for bed.