Cheese is priced at $5 per pound and wine at $10 per bottle. A consumer who enjoys both cheese and wine will not be in consumer equilibrium until the marginal utility of a pound of cheese is:
a. four times that of wine.
b. one-fourth that of wine.
c. two times that of wine.
d. one-half that of wine.
d
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If technological change is "labor augmenting," then
A) output per worker declines, output per unit of capital increases. B) "effective labor input" increases, output per unit of capital declines. C) output per worker increases, output per unit of capital is constant. D) Both output per worker and output per unit of capital change.
Economists make assumptions because
a. they need to incorporate value judgments into their models. b. analysis without assumptions would be impossibly complex. c. they always have imperfect information about reality. d. assumptions are the final product of careful economic analysis. e. assumptions allow economists to ignore things that they cannot explain.