How does the prisoners' dilemma game apply to real-life situations?
It illustrates how cooperation can be difficult to maintain, even when cooperation would make both parties better off.
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Use the following graph of the market for milk to answer the question below.
The marginal cost for the 27th million gallon of milk is
A. $1.00. B. $2.00. C. $1.50. D. dependent on the marginal benefit.
Economic profit is the difference between total revenue and
A) the normal profit. B) interest costs of production. C) opportunity costs of production. D) the costs of resources bought in markets.
Every society must deal with the problem of scarcity because:
a. people do not have enough money to buy everything they need. b. government levies heavy taxes on households and firms. c. human beings become satiated as consumption increases. d. human wants are nearly unlimited relative to the availability of resources. e. productive resources, technology, and labor are unlimited.
Adverse selection refers to when:
A. one party to a transaction has more information than the other and this results in a bargaining dispute. B. one party selects the wrong strategy and they are displeased with their selection. C. one party to a transaction has more information than the other and transactions occur less frequently due to the information asymmetry. D. neither party is willing to be party to a transaction because they don’t have enough information.