What is the distinction between a money price and a relative price?
What will be an ideal response?
The money price of a good is the dollar amount that must be paid for it. The relative price of a good is its money price expressed as a ratio to the money price of another good. Thus the relative price is the amount of the other good that must be foregone to purchase a unit of the first good.
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The figure above shows the market for coffee. If one firm owns all the coffee outlets and sells 10 million pounds of coffee a month
A) the market is efficient because the marginal social benefit from coffee exceeds its marginal social cost. B) the market is efficient because the total social benefit from coffee exceed the total social cost. C) there is a deadweight loss because the marginal social benefit from the last pound of coffee exceeds its marginal social cost. D) there is a deadweight loss because the marginal social cost of the last pound of coffee exceeds its marginal social benefit.
M1 is actually a smaller amount than M2
a. True b. False Indicate whether the statement is true or false