Which of the following could be evidence of a market failure?
A) Resources in an economy are not fully utilized.
B) The market price of a product is above the average cost of production.
C) There are only a handful of firms competing against each other in an industry.
D) Market prices do not reflect true production costs.
Answer: D
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An increase in the rate of economic growth curve could be caused by all of the following except
A. a national tax that encourages all employers to provide more training and education for employees which leads to an across-the-board upgrade of the skill level of the nation's workforce. B. a movement along the production possibilities curve so that the society produces more consumer goods and less capital goods. C. an increase in immigration that increases the country's labor force by 20 percent. D. an increase in research and development spending for space technology that improves the quality of the nation's capital stock.
Which of the following contributed to the turn-around in the U.S. government budget from a surplus in the early 2000s to record deficits by the end of the decade?
A. An increase in tax revenues because of a recession. B. An increase in business saving. C. An increase in government purchases on homeland security and wars. D. An increase in household saving.
Pietro is a manager at a carwash. He has hired 10 workers to wash and detail cars for him and is considering what type of payment scheme he should set up for his workers
He can pay each of his workers $9 per hour to wash and detail cars, or he can pay his workers $12 for each car a worker washes and details. (It takes 75 minutes, on average, for an employee to wash and detail a car.) If Pietro wants to maximize the number of cars his workers wash and detail in one day, which payment scheme should he use? Explain.
If good X is a normal good and its price rises, then quantity demanded
a. may or may not fall. b. will always fall. c. will always rise. d. will remain unchanged.