Economic efficiency is achieved when the price of a unit of a commodity is equal to the marginal cost of producing that unit
a. True
b. False
Indicate whether the statement is true or false
True
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In 2007 the real interest rate in the United States was 2 percent. By 2013, the equilibrium real interest in the United States was ________ because the ________
A) 0.5 percent; United States experienced a deep recession as a result of a financial crisis in 2008-2009 B) 0.5 percent; United States began to recover from the deep recession and financial crisis of 2008-2009 C) 3.5 percent; United States began to recover from the deep recession and financial crisis of 2008-2009 D) 3.5 percent; United States experienced a deep recession as a result of a financial crisis in 2008-2009 E) not yet calculated; effects of the financial crisis of 2008-2009 have not yet been tallied The figure above shows the demand for loanable funds curve.
According to the text, government licensing frequently enables monopoly in
A) agriculture. B) electricity production. C) mining. D) retail sales.
(Appendix) A daily production function for calculators is Q = 12L2 - L3. Show all your work for the following questions.a) What is the marginal product equation for labor?b) What is the APL function?
What will be an ideal response?
Firms in a small economy planned that inventories would grow over the past year by $300,000. Over that year, inventories actually grew by $400,000. This implies that
A) aggregate expenditure that year was less than GDP that year. B) aggregate expenditure that year was equal to GDP that year. C) there was a planned decrease in inventories that year. D) there was an unplanned decrease in inventories that year.