Savings accounts . . .
interest rates are most determined by the state of
the national economy.
Mutual funds . . .
Treasury bills . . .
traded on nationwide exchanges; prices and returns
are pretty uniform nationwide.
Real estate . . .
rests directly on local conditions in each city, and sometimes even in
different parts of the same city;
affected by things like local unemployment, local bad weather,
local price of gas, local tourism, local special events, etc.
The way economists would probably explain the wastage of
this clam resource is by saying that clams are free goods and are therefore
subject to the tragedy of the commons effect. The tragedy of the commons effect
is a theory in economics, postulated by the Victorian economist William Forster
Lloyd.
The tragedy of the commons effect describes a condition
within a shared-resource system where each user act freely according to their
own self-interest, but their collective actions ends in the depletion or spoilage
of that resource, thus having a negative impact on the common good of all users.
In this case, commons is taken to refer to the clam resources.
<span>b. the cpi is what the economists need to know the least.
CPI stands for Consumer Price index which measures the change in price level based on the goods and services purhased by consumers. The Costumer price Index will not affect the economic situation because it only calculate the </span><span>measurement of the price changes of a basket of goods over time.</span>
Answer:
a) see attached image
b) Friday's slope = 1/2
c) Kwame's slope = 1/3
d) Kwame's budget line since it includes 60 fish on one side and 20 coconuts on the other.
e) Kwame is willing to pay more fish per coconut
