According to your authors, "wealth = material things"

A) must be rejected.
B) makes sense to economists, but not non-economists.
C) is the correct definition of wealth.
D) helps us understand the foundations of what Adam Smith called the commercial society.


A

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a. shift outward, parallel to its initial position. b. shift inward, parallel to its initial position. c. pivot along the horizontal axis. d. pivot along the vertical axis.

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