What is the opportunity cost of your college degree?
What will be an ideal response?
A quick answer would be to say that the cost is the tuition, room and board, and books expenditures that are borne during the college years. But such a statement would be incorrect. First, it understates one aspect of costs: one is giving up income while a student. But it also overstates the costs in another dimension: people would eat and sleep somewhere regardless of their attendance in college. Therefore, one should not consider room and board to be part of the cost of college attendance.
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A) current account surplus B) current account deficit C) trade surplus D) budget deficit
Refer to the above table. Assuming constant opportunity costs, the opportunity cost of producing a computer in the United States is ________ while the opportunity cost of producing a computer in Mexico is ________
A) 0.8 bicycle; 2 computers B) 2.5 computers; 0.25 bicycle C) 0.5 bicycle; 0.2 bicycle D) 2 bicycles; 5 bicycles