Price ceilings are typically imposed to benefit sellers
a. True
b. False
Indicate whether the statement is true or false
False
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Which of the following is the best definition of economics?
What will be an ideal response?
The production possibilities frontier itself shows
A) the maximum amount of resources available at any given time. B) combinations of goods and services that do not fully use available resources. C) the maximum rate of growth of output possible for an economy. D) the maximum levels of production that can be attained.
If consumer tastes are quasilinear -- and ignoring the possibility of corner solutions and violations of the conditions of the first welfare theorem, the competitive market production level of the quasilinear good will be the same as that chosen by a social planner whose goal includes (but is not necessarily limited to) efficiency.
Answer the following statement true (T) or false (F)
The above figure shows the Lorenz curves for four different countries. If country C implemented a policy of redistribution from rich to poor, its Lorenz curve would
A) move toward country B's. B) move toward country D's. C) become positively sloped. D) move above the line of equality.