Answer the following questions true (T) or false (F)
1. In order to construct the budget line, one only needs to know the prices of the goods in question.
2. Normal goods are goods for which consumption falls (rises) when income increases (decreases).
3. The consumer is at equilibrium when the marginal rate of substitution is equal to the slope of the budget line.
1. FALSE
2. FALSE
3. TRUE
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A firm in long-run equilibrium under monopolistic competition will earn
A) zero economic profits because of free entry. B) positive monopoly profits because each sells a differentiated product. C) positive oligopoly profits because each firm sells a differentiated product. D) negative economic profits because it has economies of scale. E) positive economic profit if it engages in international trade.
Commercial society provides incentives to specialize by
A) following one's comparative disadvantage. B) pursuing one's comparative advantage. C) producing somewhere outside the production possibilities frontier. D) producing a narrowly defined good without an interest in the wealth it generates to the producer.
An increase in the demand for green tea raises the price of green tea from $16 a pound to $20 a pound. As a result, quantity supplied increases by 30 percent. Using the midpoint formula, what is the value of the price elasticity of supply?
A) 1.35 B) 1.875 C) 2.22 D) 7.5
Refer to Figure 4.1. All else equal, a decrease in the government's budget deficit will cause
A) a shift from S1 to S2. B) a shift from S2 to S1. C) a change in the interest rate from r2 to r1. D) a change in loanable funds from L2 to L1.