The amount of money that a wheat farmer could have earned if he had planted barley instead of wheat is
a. an explicit cost.
b. an accounting cost
c. an implicit cost.
d. forgone accounting profit.
c
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According to some New Keynesian theories, one possible rationale for active policy making is
A) growing competition in U.S. product markets. B) flexible prices. C) sluggish adjustment of the price level in response to changes in aggregate demand D) people are not rational and so do not react to incentives.
Suppose Mack's wage was $7.00 an hour in 2001 and was $12.00 per hour in 2012. The CPI was 94 in 2001 and 201 in 2012. The 2001 wage in terms of 2012 dollars is
A) $13.16. B) $7.00. C) $14.97. D) $14.07. E) $3.48.
Melissa has an income of $240 a month to spend on tennis lessons and concert tickets. The price of a tennis lesson is $20, and the price of a concert ticket is $40
If the quantity of tennis lessons is QT, and the quantity of concert tickets is QC, Melissa's budget line equation is A) QC = 6 - 0.5QT. B) QC = 12 - 2QT. C) QC = 240 - 40QT. D) QC = 20 + 40QT.
When a person's consumption goes from $8,000 to $12,000 when her disposable income goes from $10,000 to $20,000, her MPC equals: a. 0.4
b. 0.6. c. 0.75. d. 0.8.