The above figure shows the supply curves in four different markets. If each of the markets has an identical downward sloping demand curve and the same tax is levied on suppliers, which market would produce the largest amount of deadweight loss?

A) A
B) B
C) C
D) D
E) A and D

D

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Adam Smith argued that each person in a competitive market is led to promote the

A) efficient use of society's resources, because each person's intention is to make society better off. B) efficient use of society's resources, even though it is no person's intention to make society better off. C) inefficient use of society's resources, even though each person's intention is to make society better off. D) inefficient use of society's resources, because it is no person's intention to make society better off.

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The velocity of circulation is

A) the relationship between income and spending. B) the relationship between increases in income and investment. C) the ratio of currency to demand deposits. D) the average number of times per year a dollar is spent on goods and services in GDP.

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