Answer:
Casey's opportunity cost of producing 1 kg of potatoes is 5 kg of steak.
Casey's opportunity cost of producing 1 kg of steak is 0.2 kg of potatoes.
Rick's opportunity cost of producing 1 kg of potatoes is 3 kg of steak.
Rick's opportunity cost of producing 1 kg of steak is 0.33 kg of potatoes.
Casey should produce steak while Rick should produce potatoes, since Rick has a comparative advantage in producing potatoes (lower opportunity cost) and Casey has a comparative advantage in producing steak.
As long as the price of steak per kilogram of potatoes is less than 5 kg of steak and more than 3 kg of steak, then both would win. In order for both of them to win is a similarly proportional way, the exchange price should be 4 kg of steak per kg of potatoes.
Answer:
The short-run aggregate supply curve slopes upward because of all of the following reasons except a. in the short run, as prices of final goods and services increase, some firms are very slow to adjust their prices, thus their sales increase. b. in the short run, an unexpected change in the price of an important resource can change the cost to firms.
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Answer:
(d) all costs exclusive of payments to fixed factors of production.
Explanation:
The cost involved in the first three options is considered by economists as accounting cost. Economic cost involves the accounting cost, but it is added to the opportunity cost, which is the remuneration that an economic agent fails to receive for practicing one economic activity and not another.
For example, a business owner has fixed production costs, but it should add to his opportunity cost to be working in that firm rather than another economic activity.
