In which of the following cases can we be certain that a natural resource has become scarcer?
a. both the demand for the resource and the supply of the resource have increased.
b. both the demand for the resource and the supply of the resource have decreased.
c. the demand for the resource has increased and the supply has decreased.
d. the demand for the resource has decreased and the supply has increased.
c
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Thomas Malthus was an early nineteenth-century economist that created a model describing the relationship between:
A. population growth and war. B. population growth and birth control. C. population growth and crime. D. population growth and food production.
The development of a financial market is not important in determining the economic growth of a nation
a. True b. False Indicate whether the statement is true or false
When a tax is placed on the sellers of energy drinks, the
a. sellers bear the entire burden of the tax. b. buyers bear the entire burden of the tax. c. burden of the tax will be always be equally divided between the buyers and the sellers. d. burden of the tax will be shared by the buyers and the sellers, but the division of the burden is not always equal.
When the absolute price elasticity of demand equals 1, demand is
A. elastic. B. unit-elastic. C. inelastic. D. undetermined without more information.