You want to hire a law firm to represent you from which you derive benefit. The law firm incurs costs from providing this service. As long as marginal benefits are greater than marginal costs, value is
A. not maximized because fewer hours of services are provided.
B. minimized.
C. not maximized because more hours of services are provided.
D. maximized.
Answer: A
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A professional basketball franchise is trying to assemble a parcel of land to build an arena. There are 25 houses on the land the franchise needs. In this case,
A) eminent domain can reduce transactions costs and make a pie-increasing arena possible. B) eminent domain can reduce the likelihood of holdouts and make a pie-increasing arena possible. C) eminent domain is not called for as the land can probably be acquired more efficiently through bargaining. D) Both A and B are correct.
Cuba spends the highest percentage of GDP (18.7 percent) on education while the United States is the 38th highest spender with 5.7 percent of GDP
If spending on education is important for economic growth, which of the following statements explain why Cuba's economic growth rate is lower than the U.S. economic growth rate? (data from United Nations Human Development Programme) A) Cuba trades with many more countries than does the United States. B) Cuba doesn't offer property rights that promote innovation. C) Cuba's population is smaller than the U.S. population. D) all of the above explain why Cuba's economic growth rate is lower than the U.S. economic growth rate.
When a negative externality exists, the private market produces
A) products at a low opportunity cost. B) less than the economically efficient output level. C) products at a high opportunity cost. D) more than the economically efficient output level.
In the 1970's the Federal Reserve responded to an adverse supply shock. Its policy made
a. the recession that followed smaller and so provided a more favorable tradeoff between inflation and unemployment. b. the recession that followed smaller, but in doing so produced a less favorable tradeoff between inflation and unemployment. c. the recession that followed larger, but in doing so provided a more favorable tradeoff between inflation and unemployment. d. the recession that followed larger and also produced a less favorable tradeoff between inflation and unemployment.