Some environmental groups are on record suggesting that the price of gasoline should be much higher than it was in the early 1990s. Why might they say this?
A) They own stock in oil companies.
B) They anticipate that the longer the price is high, the more elastic the response by consumers will be.
C) They anticipate that the longer the price is high, the less elastic the response by consumers will be.
D) They anticipate that higher prices will reduce the price elasticity of supply of oil.
B
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Answer the next question on the basis of the following data faced by a perfectly competitive firm.OutputMarginal RevenueMarginal Cost0----1$16$102169316134161751621If the firm's minimum average variable cost is $10, the firm's profit-maximizing level of output would be
A. 2. B. 3. C. 4. D. 5.
What does it mean for a good to be non-rival in consumption?
What will be an ideal response?
Most countries in the world have Gini coefficients ranging from:
A. 0.20 to 0.85. B. 0.25 to 0.60. C. 0.10 to 0.50. D. 0.30 to 0.40.
What does the upper half of the diagram represent—the part marked 1?
a. the product market b. the factor market c. the government flow of resources d. the flow of income