In a competitive market economy, a resource in short supply will be allocated
a. so that each firm gets enough to keep producing some portion of its output.
b. according to how much each firm purchased before the shortage.
c. to those firms that can make the most profitable use of it.
d. by government fiat.
c
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If the market in the figure above changes from perfectly competitive to a profit-maximizing single-price monopoly, the amount of the gain in producer surplus is the area ________
A) ABH B) BFGH C) ACG D) BDEH E) ACE
The natural rate of unemployment
A. exists only during periods of recession or depression in the economy. B. prevails in long-run macroeconomic equilibrium, when all workers and employers have fully adjusted to any changes in the economy. C. prevails in the short-run macroeconomic equilibrium, before workers and employers have had a chance to adjust to an economic shock. D. exists due to welfare and unemployment benefits that reduce potential workers' incentives to find work.