In a market economy, who or what determines who produces each good and how much is produced?

a. the government
b. lawyers
c. lotteries
d. prices


d

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Indicate whether the statement is true or false

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If, as an entrepreneur, I am earning accounting profits of $60,000 per year and the opportunity cost of my time is $50,000

A) I am earning economic profits of $10,000. B) I am earning economic profits of $60,000. C) I am earning economic losses of $10,000. D) I should close my business.

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The federal government began officially measuring poverty in the

A) 1860s. B) 1900s. C) 1930s. D) 1960s.

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Reducing prices below cost in order to eliminate competitors (with the intention of later raising prices to recoup all losses) is

A) an empirical impossibility in a free society. B) called induced competition. C) called predatory price cutting. D) increasingly common in the American economy.

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