A downward-sloping demand curve suggests that consumers
A) buy less at lower prices.
B) buy more at higher prices.
C) plan to buy more at a given, lower price.
D) ignore marginal benefits and only focus on the supply of a product.
C
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When all other influences on firms' hiring plans remain the same, the
A) lower the real wage rate, the greater is the quantity of labor supplied B) higher the real wage rate, the greater is the quantity of labor demanded. C) lower the real wage rate, the smaller is the quantity of labor demanded. D) lower the real wage rate, the greater is the quantity of labor demanded. E) None of the above answers is correct because firms' hiring decisions depend on how profitable hiring a worker is, which depends on how much added profit the worker can create.
If a marginal cost pricing rule is imposed on the firm in the figure above, the firm will produce
A) 5 units. B) 20 units. C) 30 units. D) 40 units.
Figure 6.9 depicts a hypothetical fish market with a horizontal supply curve. Suppose the government imposes a tax of $2 per pound of fish, and the tax is paid in legal terms by producers. If the supply curve were positively sloped:
A. producers would bear the full cost of the tax. B. consumers would bear the full cost of the tax. C. both producers and consumers share the tax. D. There is not sufficient information.
The contributive standard (merit standard) for distributing income implies that
A) income should be distributed equally. B) income should be distributed according to need. C) income should be distributed according to the marginal productivity of workers. D) a transfer should be contributed to an individual above his or her contribution to net output.