What is the relationship between marginal cost and marginal physical product?
What will be an ideal response?
Assuming labor is the only variable input and the wage rate is fixed, marginal cost then equals the wage rate divided by marginal physical product. Thus, marginal cost increases as marginal physical product decreases, and vice versa.
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The primary purpose of labor unions is to
A) ensure that workers receive adequate safety training. B) negotiate with employers about wages and working conditions. C) endorse candidates and donate money to them. D) ensure that all members earn identical incomes.
The Buda Agri Corporation is the sole employer in rural Hungary. In the labor market, Buda Agri is a
A) monopolistic competitor. B) perfect competitor. C) monopsony. D) monopoly.
The Clayton Act of 1914
a. was too vaguely worded to reduce anticompetitive behavior significantly b. prohibited conspiracies in restraint of trade c. prohibited price discrimination that reduces competition and cannot be justified based on cost differences d. created the Federal Trade Commission e. prohibited firms from reducing prices too far