The dynamic process of competition
a. provides profit-seeking sellers with little incentive to heed consumer preferences.
b. was shown by Adam Smith to be a major source of economic inefficiency.
c. provides consumers with alternative suppliers and thus a mechanism with which they can discipline sellers.
d. will permit business decision makers to earn long-run economic profit unless they are regulated by government officials.
C
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In the 1980s and most of the 1990s, the federal government
A) ran small deficits. B) ran small surpluses. C) ran large deficits. D) was balanced.
Recall the Application. The experiment conducted by Blinder showed that the actual process of having committee meetings and discussions
A) improved the group's overall performance. B) tended to polarize the group into two distinct factions. C) magnified the individual group member's differences. D) related to the average performance of the individual group members.