When labor is a firm's only variable input in its production process, a profit-maximizing firm will continue to employ additional workers as long as:
a. the marginal product of labor > 0
b. the marginal revenue product of labor < the marginal resource cost.
c. the marginal revenue product of labor > the marginal resource cost.
d. none of the above.
c
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Technological progress makes the production possibilities frontier
A) shift inward toward the origin. B) become more linear and less bowed. C) shift outward from the origin. D) become less linear and more bowed.
Critics of debt relief make all of the following arguments EXCEPT
A) it would be wasted money since the conditions that caused the debt would be likely to persist. B) countries with large foreign debts are poorly administered. C) debt relief can quickly fuel a new round of borrowing that simply restores debt to prior levels. D) debt relief will encourage other nations to borrow excessively with the hope that their debts may be forgiven in the future. E) the cost of debt relief to the most severely indebted countries is too large for the high income countries to afford.