What is the difference between economic efficiency and equity?

What will be an ideal response?

Economic efficiency is concerned with maximizing the value of output that can be generated by a given resource base while equity deals with the distribution of society's total output among the sectors and individuals of society.

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Which of the following is a possible reason for a comparatively steeper demand curve for health care? a. A large increase in the price of health care leads to a more than proportionate fall in the quantity demanded for health care. b. The demand curve for health care is comparatively steeper than other products, because health care is a Giffen good. c. A change in the price of health care

leads to no change in the profit earned by the suppliers. d. A large increase in the income of households leads to a less than proportionate increase in the quantity demanded. e. A large increase in price does not cause a reduction in the purchase of health care by the same proportion.

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