The profit motive can encourage businesses to do all of the following except
A. Mistreat customers.
B. Provide unsafe working conditions.
C. Pollute the environment.
D. Restrict competition.
Answer: A
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When using fiat money like the drachma, the key to acceptance is that households and firms have confidence that if they accept drachma in exchange for goods and services, the drachma will not lose much value during the time they hold them. If sellers were not willing to accept the drachma in exchange for goods and services, the drachma would not serve as A) a medium of exchange. B) fiat money. C) legal tender. D) a unit of account.
A lower real interest rate, amount of consumer debt, and personal taxes ________ personal consumption expenditures
A) increase B) decrease C) have no effect on D) none of the above
The manager of Slick Lens, a sunglasses manufacturer, notices that the cost to purchase lenses for their sunglasses in the spot market has fallen. As a result of the change, which of the following is true?
A) The manager has more of an incentive to integrate backward. B) The manager has less of an incentive to integrate backward. C) The manager has more of an incentive to integrate forward. D) The manager has less of an incentive to integrate forward.
Think totals: In a perfectly competitive labor market, the total labor cost curve, TLC
a. is upward sloping, and the marginal labor cost curve, MLC, is downward sloping b. is downward sloping, and the marginal labor cost curve, MLC, is upward sloping c. and the marginal labor cost curve, MLC, are both horizontal curves d. is horizontal and the marginal labor cost curve, MLC, is upward sloping e. is upward sloping, and the marginal labor cost curve, MLC, is horizontal