What is an attempt to monopolize an industry?
What will be an ideal response?
In theory, attempts to monopolize an industry mean a firm is trying to become a monopoly. In practice, attempts to monopolize an industry are more difficult to define and are a matter of interpretation by the courts. The "rule of reason" seemed to say that size alone doesn't constitute an attempt to monopolize as in the 1920 U.S. Steel case. But the "rule of reason" was overturned when size did matter as in the 1945 Alcoa case. Even in more recent cases, it is difficult to predict what the court will define as an attempt to monopolize. Decisions continue to be divided in this area of the law.
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When the government chooses to use resources to build a dam, these sources are no longer available to build a highway. This choice illustrates the concept of
A) a market mechanism. B) macroeconomics. C) opportunity cost. D) a fallacy of composition.
Dante has two possible routes to travel on a business trip. One is more direct but more exhausting, taking one day but with a probability of business success of 1/4. The second takes three days, but has a probability of success of 2/3
If the value of Dante's time is $1000/day, the value of the business success is $12,000, and Dante is risk neutral, A) it doesn't matter which path he takes, because he doesn't consider risk. B) he should take the 1-day trip, because he doesn't consider risk. C) he should take the 1-day trip, because $11,000 is greater than $9,000. D) he should take the 3-day trip, because it will increase his expected net revenue by $3,000. E) he should take the 3-day trip, because it will increase his expected net revenue by $5,000.
The exchange rate is the:
A. value of one currency expressed in terms of another currency. B. reciprocal of the currency's real value. C. value of one currency expressed in terms of the goods and services it can buy. D. value of currency adjusted for inflation.
Full employment occurs
A) only if the unemployment rate is zero. B) only if the unemployment rate is equal to the natural unemployment rate. C) only if unemployment is equal to structural unemployment plus cyclical unemployment. D) None of the above answers are correct.