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... pound of potatoes costs the rancher 8 pounds of meat,
1 pound of meat costs the rancher 1/8 pound of potatoes. Similarly, because 1
pound of potatoes costs the farmer 1/2 pound of meat, 1 pound of ... 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 potatoes.
2. Maria can read 20 pages of economics ... The rancher buys 1
pound of potatoes for a price of 3 pounds of meat. This price of potatoes is lower
than her opportunity cost of 1 pound of potatoes, which is 8 pounds of meat. Thus,
the rancher...
... quantity of ice cream you are willing to produce
and offer for sale? Here are some possible answers.
Price
The price of ice cream is one determinant of the quantity supplied. When
the price of ice ... MARKET FORCES OF SUPPLY AND DEMAND 77
MARKET SUPPLY VERSUS INDIVIDUAL SUPPLY
Just as market demand is the sum of the demands of all buyers, market supply is
the sum of the supplies of all sellers. ... the price of the good. This
relationship between price and quantity supplied is called the law of supply:
Other things equal, when the price of a good rises, the quantity supplied of the
good...
... responsiveness of
quantity demanded or quantity
supplied to one of its determinants
price elasticity of demand
a measure of how much the quantity
demanded of a good responds to a
change in the price of that ... price of flour or a fall in
the price of milk? Illustrate and explain your
answer.
b. Suppose instead that the equilibrium price of
cream cheese has risen but the equilibrium quantity
of bagels ... events
certainly raise the price of ice cream, but their impact on the amount of ice
cream sold is ambiguous.
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elasticity of demand.
2. List and explain some of the determinants of the price
elasticity of demand.
3. If the elasticity is greater ... reducing the supply of farm products may raise the in-
comes of farmers, but it does so at the expense of consumers.
WHY DID OPEC FAIL TO KEEP THE PRICE OF OIL HIGH?
Many of the most disruptive...
... is war. When wars occur, government spending on national defense rises
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World ... Second, debt financing of wars shifts part of the cost of wars to fu-
ture generations, who will have to pay off the government debt. This is argu-
ably a fair distribution of the burden, for future ... THE FINANCIAL SYSTEM 577
size of the changes to the $20 billion of extra
government borrowing.
c. How does the elasticity of supply of loanable
funds affect the size of these changes? (Hint: See
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WICKED WITCH OF THE EAST: Grover Cleveland
WICKED WITCH OF THE WEST: William McKinley
WIZARD: Marcus Alonzo Hanna, chairman of the
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dards—to ensure the reliability of a commonly used unit of measurement. When
the Fed increases the money supply and creates inflation, it erodes the real value
of the ... example of how inflation discourages saving is the tax treatment of capital
gains—the profits made by selling an asset for more than its purchase price. Sup-
pose that in 1980 you used some of your...
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