An example of opportunity cost:
a. is the Chinese food that you gave up when you chose to eat Italian food.
b. is the tuition that you pay to attend college.
c. for a professor of economics is the pleasure that he or she derives from teaching economics.
d. is sweets given up by a person who would never eat them even if he or she could.
e. is the amount spent on buying movie tickets.
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The era of bank panics in the United States was effectively ended by
A) establishing the Fed as lender of last resort. B) implementing the gold standard. C) abandoning the gold standard. D) introducing deposit insurance.
A Japanese flour mill buys wheat from the United States and pays for it with yen. Other things the same, Japanese
a. net exports increase, and U.S. net capital outflow increases. b. net exports increase, and U.S. net capital outflow decreases. c. net exports decrease, and U.S. net capital outflow increases. d. net exports decrease, and U.S. net capital outflow decreases.
The No Marginal Improvement Principle tells us that, at the best choice:
A. the marginal benefit of the last unit must be at least as large as the marginal cost and the marginal benefit of the next unit must be no greater than the marginal cost. B. marginal cost and marginal benefit of the last unit must always be equal. C. the marginal benefit of the last unit must be at least as large as the marginal cost and the marginal benefit of the next unit must be greater than the marginal cost. D. small changes in the level of an activity will always increase net benefit.
The price of house paint, a normal good, has gone up. This change can be shown graphically as a:
A. movement along the demand curve to the left. B. shift in the demand curve to the left. C. shift in the demand curve to the right. D. movement along the demand curve to the right.