The demand curve faced by a firm with a patent on a marketable product
a. is horizontal
b. is vertical
c. slopes upward
d. slopes downward
e. is nonexistent
D
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A supermarket manager discovers that his generic brand beans are disappearing off of his shelves faster than he can restock them and the premium brand beans are staying on the shelf going unsold
What can we probably say about the current prices of each of these products in relation to the market-clearing price?
The major reason the market demand curve for labor slopes downward is because:
a. at lower wage rates, workers are less willing to supply labor to the market. b. at lower wage rates, workers are more willing to supply labor to the market. c. of the law of diminishing marginal product d. of the law of diminishing marginal resource cost.
Refer to the accompanying figure. For the nation whose PPC is shown, it must be true that:
A. the nation's productive resources are better-suited to making milk than to making movies. B. some of the nation's productive resources are better-suited to making milk, and some are better-suited to making movies. C. the nation's productive resources are better-suited to making movies than to making milk. D. the nation has a comparative advantage in making milk.
As a person receives more of a good, the _______________ from each additional unit of the good declines.
A. utility B. sunk costs C. marginal utility D. budget constraint