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Work and Utility Explain the concept of the net utility of work. How is it useful in developing the labor supply curve?
How are resource costs affecting housing prices? Alternatively, how is housing demand affecting resource prices?
According to the editorial, what is one advantage and one disadvantage of raising the Nigerian minimum wage?
Suppose the market price of output is $25 per unit. What is the maximum weekly wage at which the firm would hire that additional worker?
Optimal Use of More Than One Resource Explain the rule for determining optimal resource use when a firm employs more than one resource.
How would changes in the supply of fertilizer affect the marginal product, and thus the income, of farmers in such countries?
Firm's Demand for a Resource How does the law of diminishing marginal returns affect a firm's demand for labor?
Find a website with a date within the two most recent years. Analyze the union situation described.
Case Study: Federal Bailout of GM, Chrysler, and the UAW. How would the UAW benefit for increased demand for GM and Chrysler vehicles?
Explain the difference in approaches and describe the impact these differences have on excess quantity of labor supplied.
Industrial Unions Why are unions more effective at raising wages in oligopolistic industries than in competitive industries?
What characterizes a winner-take-all labor market? Offer some reasons why corporate heads now earn relatively more than they did in 1980.
Develop your discussion and replies by reflecting on perspectives of how leaders emerge and use different styles, as well as how obedience, power.
Consider the cis/trans isomerization of a peptide bond. For a bond between two amino acids (different from proline).
Contrary to a popular view, the Great Depression was not caused by the 1929 stock market crash.
Analyze the advantages and disadvantages of the early-bird check-in process for Southwest Airlines.
How important is economic growth? Does it really make people better off in the long run?
Identify the fundamental issues and causal factors giving rise to these symptoms.
Compose a statement to the press to explain Apple's decision and mitigate potential negative reactions.
Product Differentiation What are four ways in which a firm can differentiate its product? How can advertising become a barrier to entry?
Why does the demand curve facing a monopolistically competitive firm slope downward in the long run, even after the entry of new firms?
Global Economic Watch Go to the Global Economic Crisis Resource Center. Write a paragraph about one example of an organization practicing price discrimination.
Read the article "Is Google Gaining a Monopoly on the World's Information?" Does Google enjoy a barrier to entry? What is the source of that barrier, if any?
Draw a diagram depicting the firm's profit-maximizing price and output level. Why is marginal revenue less than price for this firm?
At what output rate and price does the monopolist operate? In equilibrium, approximately what is the firm's total cost and total revenue?