Relating to the Economics in Practice on page 340: Europe has a carbon tax, and electricity producers are among the largest of the carbon producing firms. The carbon tax increases the costs of the electricity producers, which will shift the ________ curve in the electricity market to the ________.

According to Alfred Chandler (1977), big business could be justified, at least in part, by

(a) a rapid rate of innovation among big firms. (b) periodic recessions in which alert big businessmen buy out bankrupt firms and expand operations. (c) a relatively low rate of bankruptcies among big firms. (d) its ability to take advantage of scale economies—big business could best take advantage of technology and economies resulting from large-scale production processes.

The poverty income level equals the:

a. average income of the bottom one-tenth of all income recipients. b. cost of an economical and nutritional food plan for a family multiplied by six. c. cost of an economical and nutritional food plan for a family multiplied by three. d. average income of a family headed by a worker who has been unemployed for six months or more.