In a perfectly competitive labor market, if any one firm decreases the amount of labor it employs, the most likely result will be that the

a. market wage rate will rise
b. firm's revenue and cost will fall
c. market wage will fall
d. firm's revenue and cost will rise
e. firm's revenue will fall, but its cost will remain unchanged


B

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b. producers and consumers better coordinating their decisions through markets. c. independence of central banks. d. increased trade deficits and limited budgets deficits.

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