Labor costs account for approximately ________ of total production costs.

Which of the following is a correct characterization of socialism?

a. Tradition answers the basic economic questions. b. Markets are used exclusively to answer the basic economic questions. c. Central planning is seldom used to answer the basic economic questions. d. Government ownership of many resources and centralized decision-making answers the basic economic questions.

If the price of new automobiles rises in the U.S. market while prices remain unchanged in foreign markets,

a. foreign firms will want to export fewer automobiles to the United States b. foreign firms will want to export more automobiles to the United States c. foreign firms will not change their exports to the United States since it is a different market d. U.S. firms will want to export more automobiles to foreign markets e. U.S. firms will not change their exports to foreign markets unless foreign prices also change