Marginal resource cost is defined as the
a. additional cost of producing an additional unit of output
b. change in resource employment required to increase the units of output produced
c. ratio of marginal revenue product to the market price of the output sold
d. additional cost of employing one additional unit of a resource
e. ratio of the change in total resource usage to the change in total resource cost
D
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GDP counts only final goods and services because this
A) method avoids including any goods that are produced this year and sold next year. B) method avoids double counting of goods going through several stages of production. C) amount can be more easily determined in the marketplace. D) method avoids understating the value of GDP produced during a given year.
The principal distinction between positive analysis and normative analysis is that
A) positive analysis is useful and normative analysis is not useful. B) positive analysis is optimistic and normative analysis is neutral. C) economists always agree on the conclusions of positive analysis but could disagree on the conclusions of normative analysis. D) positive analysis tells us "what is," but normative analysis tells us "what ought to be."
Suppose that a factory is located on the outskirts of a small town. As a by-product of its production process, it produces sulfur dioxide that gets released into the air. The sulfur dioxide lowers the quality of the in the town
Suggest some possible remedies for this negative externality.
After sugar refiner has produced fine sugar for baking purposes, what is left over is used to produce molasses. This technology exhibits
a. Economies of scale b. Economies of scope c. Diseconomies of scale d. Diseconomies of scope