... opportunity cost of meat is the inverse of the opportunity
cost of potatoes. Because 1 pound of potatoes costs the rancher 8 pounds of meat,
1 pound of meat costs the rancher 1 /8 pound of potatoes. ... opportunity
cost of producing 1 pound of meat is 2 pounds of
potatoes. Explain why the rancher’s opportunity cost of
producing 1 pound of meat is 1 /8 pound of po...
... number of births is
temporarily high. How does this baby boom affect the
price of baby-sitting services in 2010 and 2020? (Hint:
5-year-olds need baby-sitters, whereas 15-year-olds can
be baby-sitters.)
7. ... Falls
Price of
Ice-Cream
Cone
Quantity of
Ice-Cream Cones
0
New equilibrium
Initial equilibrium
S
1
D
1
D
2
S
2
Q
1
Q
2
P
2
P
1
(a) Price Rises, Quantity Rises
Price of
Ice-C...
... introduction of a new hybrid. Figure 5 -8 shows an example of such a
change. When the supply curve shifts from S
1
to S
2
, the quantity of wheat sold in-
creases from 100 to 110, and the price of wheat ... VARIETY OF SUPPLY CURVES
Because the price elasticity of supply measures the responsiveness of quantity sup-
plied to the price, it is reflected in the appearance of the s...
... 1990s.
Source: U.S. Department of Treasury; U.S.
Department of Commerce; and T. S. Berry,
“Production and Population since 1 789 ,”
Bostwick Paper No. 6, Richmond, 1 988 .
572 PART NINE THE REAL ECONOMY ... history, the primary cause of fluctuations in government
debt is war. When wars occur, government spending on national defense rises
Percent
of GDP
1790 181 0 183 0 185 0 187 0 1...
... macroeconomic vari-
able. One 1996 study found that inflation was the economic term mentioned most
often in U.S. newspapers (far ahead of second-place finisher unemployment and
third-place finisher ... the princi-
ple of monetary neutrality. A worker who receives an annual raise of 10 percent
tends to view that raise as a reward for her own talent and effort. When an infla-
tion rate o...