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A farmer grows wheat and sells to a miller for $90. The miller turns the wheat into flour and sells the flour to a baker for $145. The baker turns the wheat into bread and sells the bread to consumers for $155. Consumers eat the bread. Assume that these transactions account for all economic activity in this economy.

          A farmer grows wheat and sells to a miller for $90. The miller turns the wheat into flour and sells the flour to a baker for $145. The baker turns the wheat into bread and sells the bread to consumers for $155. Consumers eat the bread.
Assume that these transactions account for all economic activity in this economy.
        
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A farmer grows wheat and sells to a miller for $90. The miller turns the wheat into flour and sells the flour to a baker for $145. The baker turns the wheat into bread and sells the bread to consumers for $155. Consumers eat the bread. Assume that these transactions account for all economic activity in this economy.
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00:01 So here we have a chain of production, right? we are going from corn to the miller who turns it into corn meal.
00:11 Then the bakery is turning into muffets, right? and the bakery is finally selling those to a grocer.
00:24 So at each step of the process, value is at it.
00:27 The corn is worth 75 cents, right? the corn meal is worth a buck 50.
00:33 The muffins are worth three and the grocer is selling the muffins for six.
00:38 So the firm value at it is the farmer is producing plus 75, right? they are taking, there's no intermediate goods for them...
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