A competitive equilibrium is Pareto-efficient because ?
A. Producers are price takers
B. consumers and producers face the same prices
C. marginal costs and benefits are equal
D. prices equal marginal cost and benefit
E. All of the above
A. Producers are price takers
B. consumers and producers face the same prices
C. marginal costs and benefits are equal
D. prices equal marginal cost and benefit
E. All of the above
A. cause foreign assemblers of computers to use more computer components that are supplied by countries other than the United States
B. Increase the Price of computers to consumers in the United States
C. Increase the Production of computers in the United States
D. Increase the production of computer components in the United States
A. one country will always have 2 percent more real GDP/person than the other
B. the standard of living in the country growing at 4 percent will start to accelerate away from the slower growing country due to compound growth
C. the standard of living in the two countries will converge
D. Next year the country growing at 4 percent will have twice the GDP/person as the country growing at 2 percent
A. Timber
B. Environmental protection
C. Wild life
D. sanctuaries
A. Monopolized shop
B. Monopolized area
C. Closed shop
D. Monopolized market
A. tends to be inefficient.
B. usually lowers the cost of production dramatically.
C. creates synergies between the newly acquired firm and other government-owned companies.
D. does none of the things described in these answers
A. not constant and the quantity theory of money does hold.
B. constant and the quantity theory of money does hold.
C. not constant and the quantity theory of money does not hold.
D. constant and the quantity theory of money does not hold.