Tài liệu Microeconomics for MBAs 19 pptx

... would measure the effort expended. Total effort for all workers combined increased as workers were added to the group doing the pulling at the same time that the individual efforts of the workers ... the rope, the individual effort averaged 84 percent of the effort expended by one worker. With eight workers pulling, the average individual effort was one-half the effort of the one worker...

Ngày tải lên: 24/12/2013, 17:15

... In 197 4, six-digit, four-function models sold for as little as $16.95. Eight-digit models that would have sold for over $300 three or four years earlier carried price tags of $19. 95. By 197 6 ... discussion on the Ford pay increase is heavily dependent on a book by Stephen Meyer, The Five- Dollar Day: Labor, Management, and Social Control in the Ford Motor Company, 190 8 -192 1 (Al...

Ngày tải lên: 15/12/2013, 10:15

... ways, and many of their differences have important implications for the type of productive efforts for which they are best suited. For example, both of the authors would have liked to have been ... Journal, December 23, 199 3, p. 1. 39 See Susan Chandler, “United We Own.” Business Week March 18, 199 6, pp. 96-100. 40 Ibid., p. 98. 41 Ibid., p. 99. 42 In the WSJ on 24 June 1...

Ngày tải lên: 15/12/2013, 10:15

... dollar holdings of foreign banks. So will American expenditures abroad whether for tours or for foreign stocks and bonds. Americans must have francs for such transactions; therefore, they must ... bargaining tool in its efforts to reduce U.S. support for Israel. President Gerald Ford responded in 197 4 by supporting a tariff on imported oil, to stimulate exploration for new dom...

Ngày tải lên: 15/12/2013, 10:15

... of being around for a number of years. Financially shaky firms in highly unstable markets are going to be reluctant to pay for the cost of their workers’ MBAs. Credit will, for them, be hard ... income in deferred forms and will not likely have strong expectations of a long career with their companies, factors that reinforce the tendency of workers to pay for their own MBAs....

Ngày tải lên: 24/12/2013, 17:15

... A, for example, must pay $100 to eliminate the first unit of sulfur dioxide and $200 to eliminate the second. Firm B must pay $200 for the first unit and $600 for the second. Although the information ... enactment and enforcement of law. The justification for all collective action, for government, lies in its ability to make men better off. This is where any discussion of the ba...

Ngày tải lên: 24/12/2013, 17:15

... point” for Microsoft sometime in the late 198 0s or early 199 0s (possibly with the release of Windows 3.1) that caused Windows to take off, sending Apple into a market-share tailspin. In 199 8, ... is for the phone company to do what the producers in the theory of lagged demand and rational addiction 14 See Kevin Kelly, New Rules for the New Economy (New York: Viking/Penguin...

Ngày tải lên: 21/01/2014, 22:20

... marginal cost of a bushel of tomatoes will decline from $10 for the first bushel to $5 for the second before rising to $10 again for the third bushel. That is, increasing marginal costs (or ... Obviously the demand for property is much higher in La Jolla than in Six Mile, which implies that a lot of people must see some added benefits for being in La Jolla. This implies that for...

Ngày tải lên: 21/01/2014, 22:20

... than costs for Chapter 9 Production Costs and Business Decisions 14 a particular service – healthcare responding to the market forces of supply and demand. Unfortunately, the forces have ... Therefore Gary will catch no more than five fish. From the positions of the two curves, we can see that Gary will catch up to five fish before he packs up his rod and heads for hom...

Ngày tải lên: 21/01/2014, 22:20

... people. Most motel operators, for instance, have room for only a very small newsstand, and so they tend to carry the mass-circulation weeklies and monthlies. For their own reasons, consumers ... quantity at each price Q 3 instead of Q2 at price P 2 , for example. They will also accept a lower price for each quantity P 1 instead of P2 for quantity Q 2 . Conversely, the decr...

Ngày tải lên: 15/12/2013, 10:15