Which of the following is true?
a. Economic reasoning implies that individuals will acquire all possible information about a choice before making it.
b. It is not rational for people to make decisions that could turn out to be mistaken
c. Reducing information costs to consumers and suppliers could permit more intelligent market decisions and lead to greater satisfaction.
d. Occupational licensing laws generally act to protect misinformed consumers from getting shoddy services and enhances competition, leading to lower prices.
c
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Why is the production possibilities frontier concave to (bowed away from) the origin?
A) Consumers have declining marginal utility, so their relative satisfaction from consuming a good changes as they move from high levels to low levels of consumption. B) The shape of the curve is due to the marginal costs of producing the two goods. At high levels of output for a particular good, the marginal cost is very high, and the firm can use the same inputs to produce a relatively large quantity of the other good. C) For a production possibilities frontier, we no longer assume firms are price takers, and the input prices and output prices change as the firms alter their mix of outputs. D) none of the above
An implication of the downward slope of the demand curve for a monopolistic competitive firm is that
A) its marginal revenue curve slopes upward. B) its marginal revenue curve and its demand curve are identical (same) line. C) its marginal revenue curve slopes downward but lies above the demand curve. D) its marginal revenue curve slopes downward but lies below the demand curve.
In many markets for personal services (such as shoe repair or lawn care) with low start-up costs,
a. production exhibits constant returns to scale b. economies of scale are exhausted rapidly c. economies of scale are exhausted slowly d. economies of scale are never exhausted e. there are only short-run costs, no long-run costs
Refer to the information provided in Table 19.4 below to answer the question(s) that follow.Table 19.4Total IncomeTotal Taxes$10,000 $1,000 20,000 2,400 30,000 4,500 40,000 8,000Related to the Economics in Practice on page 393: Refer to Table 19.4. At an income level of $10,000, the average tax rate is
A. 1%. B. 5%. C. 10%. D. 20%.