Which cost curve is continually upward sloping?
a. the average total cost curve
b. the total cost curve
c. the marginal cost curve
d. the average variable cost curve
Ans: b. the total cost curve
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At the end of World War I (1918), the United States
A. emerged as the world's leading industrial power. B. was the world's largest economy. C. had become the greatest military power. D. All of the choices are true.
Refer to the table below for a prisoner’s dilemma. Frank and George are arrested and charged with armed robbery. They are isolated in separate interrogation rooms and therefore are not allowed to engage in collusion to collectively deny committing the crime. The table shows the four possible outcomes for denial and confession for Frank and George. The payoff to Frank is in the upper corner of each box, and the payoff to George is in the lower corner of each box. The most likely outcome is
a. for both to confess and spend 5 years in prison.
b. for both to deny and spend 2 years in prison.
c. for George to deny and spend 10 years in prison and Frank to confess and spend 1 year in prison.
d. for George to confess and spend 1 year in prison and Frank to deny and spend 10 years in prison.
Which of the following best illustrates the concept of derived demand?
a. As income rises, the demand for TVs rises. b. A fall in the price of cameras will increase the demand for film. c. A fall in the demand for tires will reduce the demand for rubber. d. When the price of gasoline rises, the demand for automobile repair falls. e. If consumers expect the price of coffee to rise, demand for coffee rises.
The importance of the ceteris paribus assumption is that it: a. allows one to separate normative economic issues from positive economic ones
b. allows one to generalize from the whole to the individual. c. allows one to analyze the relationship between two variables apart from the influence of other variables. d. allows one to hold all variables constant so the economy can be carefully observed in a suspended state.