Government subsidies for education are motivated by

A. concerns over disease.
B. concerns over creating jobs for teachers.
C. concerns over equity.
D. concerns over choice.


C. concerns over equity.

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Which of the following shifts the supply curve for gasoline rightward?

A) a situation in which the quantity demanded exceeds the quantity supplied B) an increase in the price of gasoline C) a decrease in the price of a resource used to produce gasoline, such as crude oil D) an increase in the demand for gas-guzzling, sport utility vehicles

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A reduction in the required reserve ratio has the instant effect of:

a. Increasing excess reserves. b. Increasing bank shareholders' equity. c. Increasing bank reserves. d. All of the above are correct. e. None of the above is correct.

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Consider a competitive industry and a price-taking firm that produces in that industry. The market demand and supply functions are estimated to be: Demand: Qd = 10,000 ? 10,000P + 1.0MSupply: Qs = 80,000 + 10,000P ? 4,000PIwhere Q is quantity, P is the price of the product, M is income, and PI is the input price. The manager of the perfectly competitive firm uses time-series data to obtain the following forecasted values of M and PI for 2015: = $50,000 and I = $20The manager also estimates the average variable cost function to beAVC = 3.0 ?

0.0027Q + 0.0000009Q2Total fixed costs will be $2,000 in 2015. The marginal cost function is:  A. SMC = 3.0 ? 0.0054Q + 0.0000018Q2 B. SMC = 3.0 ? 0.0027Q + 0.0000009Q2 C. SMC = 3.0 ? 0.00135Q + 0.00000045Q2 D. SMC = 3.0Q ? 0.0027Q2 + 0.0000009Q3 E. none of the above

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Marge would like her husband Homer to drink less beer. All of the following are ways she could encourage Homer to drink less beer except

A) pay him to drink less beer. B) convince him that beer is good for his health. C) refuse to cook dinner for him if he does not cut back on his beer drinking. D) make him pay her $10 for every beer he drinks.

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