What is a patent used for?
a) to disseminate information
b) to restrict ownership
c) to protect inventors for as long as they live
d) to assign property rights
Ans: d) to assign property rights
You might also like to view...
If instead the government set the abatement standard at 50 million tons per year, would that standard be too lenient or too restrictive at the national level? Support your answer with specific values.
Hypothetically, suppose a recent study of hazardous waste abatement (A) arrives at the following national estimates for abating chemical solvents: MSB = 100 – 0.75A and MSC = 20 + 0.50A, where A is measured in millions of tons per year, and costs are measured in millions of dollars.
Constructing the CPI involves which of the following stages? i. conducting the monthly price survey ii. converting the CPI to an international index iii. selecting CPI market basket
A) i only B) ii only C) iii only D) i and iii E) i, ii, and iii
The schedules in the table give the marginal social benefit and marginal social cost of a DVD. If the number of DVD produced is cut to 2 a week, then the ________
A) minimum supply-price of the second DVD is $18 B) price is $18 a DVD C) opportunity cost of the second DVD is $22 D) value of the second DVD is $20
What would happen to the short-run and long-run aggregate supply curves if the capital stock grew and available supplies of natural resources expanded over the same period of time?