Which of the following statements is true?
A) All economic agents are necessarily individuals.
B) A worker who shirks work is not an economic agent.
C) A government is an example of an economic agent.
D) A street gang is not an economic agent.
C
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In the New England colonies,
(a) long winters, short summers, heavily forested areas, and rocky terrain contributed to a lack of productive farmland; agriculture was a difficult, marginal activity. (b) the great majority of New Englanders engaged in some type of subsistence agricultural activity. (c) most New England farmers subsidized their farm income with some other type of income from another occupation to support themselves, save and invest. (d) all of the above are true.
In the cartel model
a. firms believe that price increases result in a very elastic demand, while price decreases result in an inelastic demand for their products. b. each firm acts as a price taker. c. one dominant firm takes the reactions of all other firms into account in its output and pricing decisions. d. firms coordinate their decisions to act as a multiplant monopoly.