Answer:
The characteristics of industrial organic agriculture are:
- economies of scale and mechanization
- substitution of conventional inputs such as conventional fertilizer with organic fertilizers
- bagging technology makes the transport of organic salads possible
Explanation:
Pollan's book discusses how modern individuals have a disconnection between food and knowledge. Modern individuals just pick up their food and practically don't know anything about how that food got reached our tables.
Answer:
B
Explanation:
First, a monopoly produce less than the socially efficient quantity because as the figure shows, the quantity produced is determined by the intersection between the marginal cost curve (MC) and the marginal revenue curve (MR) and not by the intersection between the MC and the demand. For instance, there is a deadweight loss (shown by the figure).
Second, equilibrium price is always higher than in a competitive market because is always higher than the MC. The price is determined by the equilibrium quantity (found before) and the demand. Also, there are barries to entry and so monopolist have always price control.
Answer:
FALSE
Explanation:
The LIFO conformity rule requires taxpayers that elect to use LIFO for tax purposes to use <u>no method other than LIFO to ascertain the income, profit, or loss for the purpose of a report or statement to shareholders, partners, or other proprietors, or to beneficiaries, or for credit purposes</u>.
Hence the IRS requires that the same method for income tax purpose be used for financial statement purpose
Answer:
The producer is experiencing diminishing marginal product.
Explanation:
The law of diminishing return explains that every additional unit consumed will have less utility/return than the previous one. Same is the case with labor productivity. The first unit of labor will yield maximum return, every additional unit will result in lesser return/productivity than the previous unit. The will continue up to the point of maximum return. After that point adding additional resources will yield less total output.
