1.) In the short run, some costs are fixed and cannot be changed, such as capital and technology. Explicit costs that can be varied include variable costs like wages.
2.) There are two views of total costs - the accounting view includes explicit costs plus depreciation, while the economic view includes all explicit and implicit opportunity costs.
3.) Implicit costs include forgone earnings, depreciation, and normal profit. Economic profit is calculated as total revenue minus total costs (explicit and implicit). Accounting profit only considers explicit costs and depreciation.