Bill lives in Montana and likes to grow zucchini. He applies fertilizer to his crops twice during the growing season and notices that the second layer of fertilizer increases his crop, but not as much as the first layer. What economic concept best explains this observation?
a. The law of diminishing marginal utility.
b. The law of diminishing returns.
c. Return equalization principle.
d. The principal-agent problem.
b
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Term limits on political offices have all of the following properties except:
A. prevent officials from holding office for longer than a certain amount of time. B. discourage corruption by ensuring that one person isn't allowed to hold onto power for too long. C. can encourage corruption in reality by placing an official in power with no incentive to answer to his constituency. D. encourage people to run for multiple different political offices.
Tina withdraws $20,000 from her money market account to start up her own house cleaning business. Over that time, the account would have earned 3 percent interest. In order to properly account for all costs of her business, Tina must not forget:
A. the opportunity cost of $2,600. B. the fixed cost of $20,600 and the opportunity cost of $600. C. the fixed cost of $20,600. D. the opportunity cost of $600.