Assume that there are two parties to an exchange and that they value the goods they would receive as much as the goods they would give away. What do economists call this?
a. A coincidence of coinage
b. A coincidence of wants
c. An exchange
d. Transactions costs
e. An alignment of barter
Answer: b. A coincidence of wants
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As a firm in monopolistic competition sets the price for its product, the firm faces a tradeoff between
A) supply and demand. B) efficiency and equity. C) internal and external economies of scale. D) price and the quantity it can sell. E) its marginal revenue and its price.
Marginal social cost is equal to the
A) sum of marginal private cost and marginal external cost. B) sum of marginal private cost and marginal private benefit. C) marginal cost incurred by the producer of the good. D) marginal cost imposed on others.
Refer to Table 3-1. The table above shows the demand schedules for Kona coffee of two individuals (Luke and Ravi) and the rest of the market. If the price of Kona coffee falls from $6 to $4, the market quantity demanded would
A) decrease by 89 lbs. B) increase by 110 lbs. C) increase by 61 lbs. D) increase by 26 lbs.
The mound-shaped yield curve in the figure above indicates that short-term interest rates are expected to
A) rise in the near-term and fall later on. B) fall moderately in the near-term and rise later on. C) fall sharply in the near-term and rise later on. D) remain unchanged in the near-term and fall later on.