Compared to a perfectly competitive firm with the same cost structure, a monopoly firm will charge a:
a. higher price and sell more.
b. lower price and sell more.
c. higher price and sell less.
d. lower price and sell less.
e. similar price and sell the same.
c
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Technological advancement creates unemployment in firms that shut down or labor that is laid off. Wealth in this case is
a. Destroyed, since firms are shutting down and production of certain goods and services decreasing b. Created, since the dislocated labor and resources are absorbed by new firms created through the technological innovation, moving them to higher value use c. Destroyed, since technological progress is leading to higher unemployment d. None of the above
If a consumer is maximizing his/her utility for a given income, the:
a. marginal utility for every good purchased would be the same. b. marginal utility per dollar spent for all goods would be the same. c. marginal utility per dollar for all goods would be at a maximum. d. total expenditure on each good would be the same. e. number of units of each good consumed would be the same.
How can international trade affect the exercise of domestic economic power in the United States?
What will be an ideal response?
Your economics professor has announced that he or she will assign final grades as follows: the top 20 percent of students will get an A, the bottom 20 percent of students will get an F, and everyone else will get a C. You would expect that, as the semester progresses, students who really care about getting an A will:
A. study less and less to maintain low standards. B. try to forget about the grading scheme. C. maintain a stable agreement to not study for exams. D. engage in a positional arms race, studying more and more.