One purpose of patents is to ______ invention.

a. encourage
b. discourage
c. replace
d. advertise


a. encourage

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A. Suburbanization was the migration of tens of millions of middle-class Americans—nearly all of them white—from the cities to the suburbs. B. The people who moved to the suburbs were replaced in the cities by millions of poor people, the large majority of whom were black and Hispanic. C. The inner cities today are socially isolated from the rest of the country. D. None of these statements are false.

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Firm A charges $8.50 for each unit of Good X. If the average total cost of producing 1,000 units of Good X is $12 and the market for Good X is monopolistically competitive, Firm A ________ by producing 1,000 units of Good X

A) earns a profit of $3,500 B) earns a profit of $1,000 C) incurs a loss of $1,000 D) incurs a loss of $3,500

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The points along the demand curve represent the maximum willingness of consumers to purchase a product

a. True b. False Indicate whether the statement is true or false

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Which of the following was NOT a creation of the Bretton Woods conference?

A) World Bank B) IMF C) IBRD D) WTO

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