In recent years, wireless cellular telephones have been replacing land-line phone service. This is an example of
What will be an ideal response?
creative destruction
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Suppose a single-input production function has initially increasing but eventually decreasing marginal product. In this case, the first order condition for the profit maximization problem
A. is necessary for identifying the profit maximizing production plan. B. is sufficient for identifying the profit maximizing production plan. C. is both necessary and sufficient for identifying the profit maximizing production plan. D. is neither necessary nor sufficient for identifying the profit maximizing production plan.
The price elasticity of demand is defined as
a. the absolute change in price divided by the absolute change in quantity demanded. b. the absolute change in quantity demanded divided by the absolute change in price. c. the percentage change in quantity demanded divided by the percentage change in price. d. the percentage change in price divided by the percentage change in quantity demanded.
A lottery promises a $250,000 prize. But the prize money is paid out in $50,000 annual installments with the first installment received today.. The winner is offered the option of an immediate lump-sum payment. If the interest rate remains at 10 percent for the entire period, what is the smallest amount the winner should accept?
a. $189,540 b. $192,970 c. $208,494 d. $225,000
Each of the following explains why cost-benefit analysis is difficult except
a. there is no price with which to judge the value of a public good. b. surveys are often biased and unreliable. c. it is difficult to identify all factors that influence costs and benefits of public goods. d. government projects rarely have sufficient funding to complete them on time.