A radio station gives "free money" to those listeners whose names are drawn and announced over the airwaves from postcards the listeners sent into the radio station. Is the money really free for the listener?
While most students can identify the monetary cost of the postcard and stamp, we also must consider the opportunity cost of listening to the radio. It is true that we can do other activities while the radio is on and listen attentively when a name is drawn and announced over the airwaves. But there's also the opportunity cost of not being able to listen to another station, one that might offer more preferred programming.
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A difference between the market and the public sector is that
A) competition exists only in the market sector. B) resources are only scarce for the market sector. C) decision making is by majority rule in the public sector but not in the market sector. D) only the public sector produces private goods.
Tax revenue equals the size of the tax multiplied by the quantity sold in the market after the tax is levied
a. True b. False Indicate whether the statement is true or false
The short-run tradeoff between inflation and unemployment implies that, in the short run,
a. a decrease in the growth rate of the quantity of money will be accompanied by an increase in the unemployment rate. b. an increase in the growth rate of the quantity of money will be accompanied by an increase in the unemployment rate. c. policymakers are able to reduce the inflation rate and, at the same time, reduce the unemployment rate. d. policymakers can influence the inflation rate, but not the unemployment rate.
If real output in an economy is 1,000 goods per year, the money supply is $300, and each dollar is spent an average of 4 times per year, then according to the quantity equation, the average price level is
a. 3.33. b. 0.83. c. 1.20. d. 13.33.