The slope of the isocost line tells the firm how much
A) capital must be reduced to keep total cost constant when hiring one more unit of labor.
B) capital must be increased to keep total cost constant when hiring one more unit of labor.
C) more expensive a unit of capital costs relative to a unit of labor.
D) the isocost curve will shift outward if the firm wishes to produce more.
A
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dollar is overvalued or undervalued relative to each of the other currencies and predict what will happen in the future to each exchange rate.
When real consumption expenditure is plotted against real disposable income the resulting relationship is
a. very weak. b. positive and very curvi-linear. c. positive and very close to linear. d. negative and very close to linear. e. virtually flat.