Question

At Zooey’s elementary school, children are not allowed to trade lunches or components of their lunches with other students. Lunchroom monitors watch closely and strictly enforce this policy. If Zooey prepares an argument about the inefficiency of this policy to her principal, she can say that the school policy is:_______.
a. depriving students of a learning opportunity.
b. depriving students of a socdal opportunity.
c. preventing a market that would generate mutually beneficial trades.
d. preventing a market that would generate better nutrition.

Answer 1

Answer: c. preventing a market that would generate mutually beneficial trades.

Explanation:

Zooey could argue that the policy of lunch trades is preventing a market that would generate mutually beneficial trades because if people were allowed to trade what they want for what they have with people who have what the first person wants and wants what the first person has, that can be beneficial to both of them.

It is not unlike the system of batter trading that existed before money where people traded what they had for what they wanted.

One should be very careful here though because there are multiple disadvantages involved such as kids exchanging away more nutritious food and food poisoning.