When a perfectly competitive, well-functioning market is not in equilibrium:

A. total surplus can be increased by a change in market price.
B. the market is not efficient.
C. there are exchanges that can make some better off without someone becoming worse off.
D. All of these are true.


D. All of these are true.

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a. Richard Nixon. b. Gerald Ford. c. Jimmy Carter. d. Ronald Reagan.

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As country incomes rises, what would you generally expect to happen to the burden of noncommunicable diseases as a share of the total disease burden?

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