Julia prepares tax returns and does bookkeeping. Last year her revenues from the tax and bookkeeping business were $150,000 . and her expenses for the business were $15,000 . When she started her tax and bookkeeping business, Julia gave up her supplemental job doing in-home pet sitting. She used to earn $10,000 per year from pet sitting. Assume that she incurred no costs for her pet sitting
business. Julia's implicit costs are
a. 0.
b. $10,000.
c. $15,000.
d. $25,000.
b
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IMF conditionality refers to the
A) technical assistance the IMF gives. B) minimum size of a national debt problem that a country must have before the IMF gets involved. C) minimum-sized loan the IMF will make. D) maximum-sized loan the IMF will make. E) changes a country must make in order to receive IMF financial assistance.
In a sense, a cartel is self-destructive because
A) it reduces consumer surplus. B) it sets price above marginal cost. C) each cartel member has the incentive to cheat on the cartel. D) each cartel member earns economic profit.
The sum of payments made to resource owners for the use of their resources is:
a. gross domestic product. b. net domestic product. c. national income. d. personal income. e. disposable personal income.
Smith and Jones comprise a two-person economy. Their hourly rates of production are shown in the accompanying table. Calculators Per HourComputers Per HourSmith10010Jones1206 If Smith and Jones are dividing their time efficiently and producing fewer than 10 computers and more than 120 calculators per hour, then Smith will ________ and Jones will ________.
A. produce only computers; produce only calculators B. produce only calculators; produce only computers C. split his time between computers and calculators; produce only calculators D. produce only calculators; split his time between computers and calculators