Answer: A. The island of Atlantis has an increasing opportunity cost of producing potatoes and the production possibility frontier is bowed outward.
Explanation:
When there is an increasing opportunity cost of producing a good, the Production Possibilities Frontier (PPF) will be bowed out to represent that as more of the good is being produced, more of another good is being given up to do so.
For the island of Atlantis therefore, as they produce more of potatoes, they are giving up being able to produce whatever more and more of other goods they produce which is therefore leading to a PPF that is bowed outward.
Answer:
The correct answer is option d.
Explanation:
The most effective model to understand the effect of change of a variable on other variable is by assuming other factors to be constant. This simplifies the model and helps in easily understanding the relationship between the two variables.
Though the assumption of other things being constant does not apply in the real world, it is still used as otherwise change in other factors would complicate the model. If several factors change it would be difficult to understand the relationship between variables.
Here, to study the effect of change in the price of grapes on the market for wine, it is necessary to assume other factors such as income, consumer preferences, etc to be constant.
Answer:
a
Explanation:
Property risk is an example of a pure risk.
Pure risks are risks in which loss is the only possible outcome. It could be full loss or partial loss. Other examples of pure risks are personal and liability risks
Property risk is the risk that a person or company's property would be damaged or lost.
For example, if a building is set on fire or if a car is stolen
Answer:
Explanation:
In Russia, the economy has gone from Stalin's five year Plans, directed by the Central Committee, or Gosplan, to Mikhail Gorbachev's Perestroika, in the 1980s. This led to increased ownership of property, which continued until Putin, Boris Yeltsin's successor, took power
