When long-run average cost decreases as output increases there are definitely
A) increasing marginal returns.
B) economies of scale.
C) Both answers A and B are correct.
D) Neither answer A nor B is correct.
B
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A) a decrease in its income. B) an increase in its income. C) no change in its income. D) indeterminate, income effects are not possible to know.
Funding a Missile Program Merowak Missiles is proposing to develop its next generation Democratizer Offensive Weapon System II (DOWS II) for the US military. It expects to have to sink $1 billion into R&D and design, spend $0.5 billion building the
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Analysis of the Great Depression indicates that
a. even though monetary and fiscal policies were highly expansionary, they were unable to offset the economic plunge. b. even though monetary policy was expansionary, restrictive fiscal policy dominated during the 1930s. c. a reduction in tax rates could not prevent the economic downturn from spiraling into a depression. d. the severity of the economic decline, if not its onset, was the result of perverse monetary, fiscal and regulatory policies.
In accordance with the law of supply, both individual and market supply curves are drawn:
A. horizontal. B. vertical. C. downward-sloping. D. upward-sloping.