Which of the following is TRUE about comparative advantage?
A) Comparative advantage explains trade among nations, but not within nations.
B) Comparative advantage explains trade within nations, but not among nations.
C) Comparative advantage explains trade within nations and among nations.
D) Comparative advantage has nothing to do with trade among nations; it only is concerned with specialization within a firm.
Answer: C
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A. decrease; increase B. increase; increase C. decrease; decrease D. increase; decrease
Domestic producers of a good become worse off, and domestic consumers of a good become better off, when a country begins allowing international trade in that good and
a. the country becomes an importer of the good as a result. b. the world price exceeds the domestic price of the good that prevailed before international trade was allowed. c. the country in question has a comparative advantage, relative to other countries, in producing the good. d. total surplus does not change as a result.
Diseconomies of scale occur when a firm's
a. marginal costs are constant as output increases. b. long-run average total costs are decreasing as output increases. c. long-run average total costs are increasing as output increases. d. marginal costs are equal to average total costs for all levels of output.
What is an advantage of a command economy?
a. basic services such as healthcare can be provided to all citizens b. innovation and new ideas result in great wealth for entrepreneurs c. starvation is impossible d. the production of consumer goods is a top economic priority