Unregulated markets will tend to

a. rapidly deplete any natural resource.
b. naturally conserve any depletable natural resource by pushing up its price every year by a constant dollar amount.
c. naturally conserve a depletable resource by pushing up its price at a constant rate every year.
d. deplete a resource unless new supplies are found.

c

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A) 0.2 B) 0.3 C) 0.4 D) 0.5

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When RBC economists work out a detailed numerical example of a more general theory, they are performing

A) econometrics. B) number theory. C) calibration. D) topology.

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