Your neighbor in an apartment complex plays his music very loudly late at night, which makes it difficult for you to get to sleep
You offer the neighbor $50, the monetary value you put on your sleep, to never play his music between midnight and 7 AM. By doing so A) you have failed to bring about an efficient solution since you should have complained to the police.
B) you have indicated the cost of the externality. The externality is not internalized even if he accepts your offer.
C) you have indicated the cost of the externality, which internalizes the externality.
D) you have indicated a willingness to make the external cost a social cost.
C
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A) its action contracts total reserves and the money supply. B) total reserves increase by the amount of the purchase but the money supply stays the same. C) its action expands total reserves and the money supply. D) its action has no effect on the total reserves or the money supply because the check it writes increases reserves at one bank but they fall at another.
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What will be an ideal response?
All the transition economies suffered a transition recession:
a. True b. False
The marginal cost curves slope upward because of the principle of
A) decreasing marginal benefits. B) increasing marginal cost. C) increasing marginal benefits. D) decreasing marginal cost. E) decreasing total benefit.