Which of the following has been the largest organized group of U.S. unions during the past 50 years?

Suppose a Chinese restaurant routinely provides free fortune cookies to its customers. The economic way of thinking suggests the restaurant is

A) engaging in predatory pricing of its meals. B) attempting to increase its total profit. C) selling Chinese food below cost. D) doing all of the above. E) almost certainly doing none of the above.

Part of the decrease in real wages during the Civil War was due to deteriorating productivity because of ___

a. the inability of firms to replace machinery b. the need to use inexperienced workers c. the decline in coal production d. excessive days lost due to strikes