On the benefit side of the analysis, briefly describe two distinct benefits to society that are relevant to a risk-benefit analysis of pesticides.

Suppose you are part of an economic analysis team charged with recommending a policy response to pesticide risks. Your team decides to use risk-benefit analysis as its risk management strategy.


Among the potential benefits of pesticide use are the following:
• Greater agricultural productivity
• Stronger national and/or regional economic growth for economies dependent upon agricultural industries
• Larger exports of agricultural products based on better yields
• Reduction in world hunger

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A. decrease from 9 to 5. B. increase from 5 to 13. C. decrease from 13 to 5. D. increase from 5 to 9.

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How should the central bank design its monetary policy during a recession if the nominal interest rate has already hit the zero lower bound?

What will be an ideal response?

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The statement "as more of a good is consumed, the utility a person derives from each additional unit diminishes" is known as the:

a. water and diamond paradox. b. law of diminishing marginal utility. c. law of total utility. d. marginal-utility-to-price ratio equalization rule. e. law of diminishing demand.

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Payments to nonowners of a firm are called:

a. implicit costs. b. accounting costs. c. explicit costs. d. economic costs.

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