Down on the Farm: Factor Markets Simulation

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Down on the Farm: Factor Markets Simulation
    
Want to have fun teaching factor markets? This lesson simulates the process a firm uses to determine the profit-maximizing quantity of labor to hire in a perfectly competitive labor market.
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