If the United States imports purses, then the quantity of purses produced in the United States will ________ and the quantity of purses purchased by consumers in the United States will ________
A) increase; increase
B) increase; decrease
C) decrease; increase
D) decrease; decrease
E) not change; increase
C
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Suppose you are the monopoly owner of a movie theatre. You can allow people to enter the theatre at zero marginal cost, and you can provide popcorn at a constant marginal cost of $0.50 per bag. You have two customers, Larry and Terry, who are identical twins. Larry never buys popcorn under any circumstances. If you charge the monopoly price of $1.00 per bag for popcorn, Terry will buy 2 bags of popcorn and earn $0.50 in consumer's surplus, and you will earn $1.00 in profit from popcorn sales. If you charge the competitive price of $0.50 per bag for popcorn, Terry will buy 4 bags of popcorn and earn $2.00 in consumer's surplus, and you will earn no profit from popcorn sales.
(i) Suppose that Larry is willing to pay up to $8.00 to see the movie and Terry is willing to pay up to $5.00 to see the movie. How much should you charge for admission to the theatre and how much should you charge for popcorn? (ii) Suppose that Larry is willing to pay up to $4.00 to see the movie and Terry is willing to pay up to $5.00 to see the movie. How much should you charge for admission to the theatre and how much should you charge for popcorn?
In the economic way of thinking, government consists of many different people interacting on the basis of
A) fear. B) legal guarantees. C) prevailing property rights. D) public interests.
Increased United States military expenditures and action in response to the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 suggest that military officials in the United States _____
a. could not wait to go to war b. view the War on Terror as a negative externality c. believe that military expenditures can act as a deterrent d. are incompetent
An industry utilizes capital and two types of labor. Unskilled labor is a substitute for capital while the skilled labor is complementary to capital. An increase in the price of capital will
A) cause the demand for labor to increase, raising wages of both skilled and unskilled labor. B) cause the wage of unskilled labor to rise relative to the price of skilled labor. C) induce the firms in the industry to cut back on all levels—capital, unskilled and skilled labor. D) cause the demand for skilled labor to rise and the demand for unskilled labor to fall.