A perfectly competitive firm's short-run supply curve is the:
a. demand curve above the marginal revenue curve.
b. same as the market supply curve.
c. marginal cost curve above the average variable cost curve.
d. average total cost curve.
c
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Which of the following statements about U.S. production is correct?
A. Construction accounts for a larger percentage of total production than does manufacturing. B. Real estate services account for 12.6 percent of the value of total pro-duction, larger than any other item of services or goods. C. Consumption goods and services represent 85 percent of U.S. produc-tion by value and that percentage doesn't fluctuate much. D. The manufacture of goods represents more than 50 percent of total production.
If the production of a good creates large spillover benefits on others, the government might correct for the:
a. overallocation of resources to its production by subsidizing it b. overallocation of resources to its production by imposing a tax on it. c. underallocation of resources to its production by subsidizing it. d. underallocation of resources to its production by imposing a tax on it.