When the government eliminates artificial barriers to entry:

A. more firms will enter the market.
B. prices to consumers will likely increase.
C. competition in the market will decrease.
D. All of these will occur.


Answer: A

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The following diagram presents a circular-flow model of a simple economy. The outer set of arrows (shown in green) shows the flow of dollars, and the inner set of arrows (shown in red) shows the corresponding flow of inputs and outputs. Which of the following is true regarding this economic model?

a) Because it does not take into account the role of government, the circular-flow diagram is useless for the purposes of modeling how dollars and resources move throughout an economy.
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A. depend heavily on the contextual information that defines whether that outcome is a gain or a loss. B. are context independent because the same state of being is created regardless of one's previous circumstances. C. differ across people but are fixed for any given individual. D. depend primarily on genetics rather than environmental or contextual forces.

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