Paul Solman: Today’s Paul Samuelson excerpt explains the concept of “consumer surplus.” See the other transcripts we posted this week on the basics of economics here and here.) To Samuelson, it was ...

Companies vary greatly in terms of their missions, strategic goals and product offerings, but every business has an underlying goal of generating surplus. Surplus is a concept in economics that ...

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