Situation 37-2 Dan and Ann live in the same community and both can participate in two activities, producing and stealing. Refer to Situation 37-2. Both Dan and Ann realize that they are better off producing and not stealing from each other than producing and stealing from each other. They agree not to steal from each other. There is no enforcer of their agreement to not steal. It is likely that
A) Dan and Ann are in a prisoner's dilemma setting.
B) Dan is in a prisoner's dilemma setting but Ann is not.
C) Ann is in a prisoner's dilemma setting but Dan is not.
D) neither Dan nor Ann is in a prisoner's dilemma setting.
A
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A) capital must be reduced to keep total cost constant when hiring one more unit of labor. B) capital must be increased to keep total cost constant when hiring one more unit of labor. C) more expensive a unit of capital costs relative to a unit of labor. D) the isocost curve will shift outward if the firm wishes to produce more.
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A. interest rate; compounding interest B. interest rate; time period C. compounding interest; time period D. None of these statements is true.
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A. decreasing the supply of money. B. increasing the supply of money. C. cutting taxes. D. increasing taxes.
Persons who choose not to become informed on political and governmental matters because they feel that the costs of becoming informed exceed the benefits of becoming informed are
A) rationally ignorant. B) not acting in their own best interests. C) members of special interest groups. D) shortsighted.