Question1 A fast food restaurant currently pays $5 per hour for servers and $50 per hour to rent ovens and other kitchen machinery. The restaurant uses seven hours of server time per unit of machinery time. Determine whether the restaurant is minimizing its cost of production when the ratio of marginal products (capital to labor) is 12. If not‚ what adjustments are called for to improve the efficiency in resource use? The ratio of prices PK/PL= r/w= 50/5=10 and The capital
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Assignment #4: CHAPTER 3 - Why Do Firms Cluster? 2. Labor Pooling: What’s Fixed and Variable? Consider the model of labor pooling‚ with each firm locating either in an isolated site or in a cluster with other firms. Fill the blanks with "fixed" or "variable". A. In an isolated site‚ the wage is variable and the firm’s workforce is fixed because the supply of labor is perfectly inelastic. B. In a cluster‚ the wage is fixed and the firm’s workforce is variable because the supply of labor is
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1:Mercantilists believed that a nation would benefit from achieving: an even trade balance (exports equal to imports). a positive or favorable trade balance (exports larger than imports). as much self-sufficiency as possible (minimal exports and imports). a trade deficit‚ funded by loans from other nations. [我的答案] a positive or favorable trade balance (exports larger than imports). 2:Adam Smith’s theory was based on the labor theory of value‚ assuming that: the value of labor depended
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ECONOMY | INDIA’S ECONOMIC REFORMSThe reform process in India was initiated with the aim of accelerating the pace of economic growth and eradication of poverty. The process of economic liberalization in India can be traced back to the late 1970s. However‚ the reform process began in earnest only in July 1991. It was only in 1991 that the Government signaled a systemic shift to a more open economy with greater reliance upon market forces‚ a larger role for the private sector including foreign investment
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. THE ECONOMIC PROBLEM AND ECONOMIC SYSTEMS The economic activity of a society consists of activities related to the production and consumption of goods and services. Since earliest times‚ the primary function of organized society has been economic in nature. The other elements of civilized society -- architecture‚ literature‚ music‚ etc. -- emerge only after the material needs of the society have been amply provided for. Poor societies do not build great pyramids‚ erect magnificent cathedrals‚ or
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Special Economic Zone in Tamilnadu‚ India By Dr.Srinivasan and Mr.Alagarswami “The protests against land grab for SEZ’s have spread like wildlife.” Vandana Shiva ( 2007). The overarching problem this study tries to address is the question why the wild-fire of protest spreads in some regions‚ while in others it is either doused living behind a dying ember or perceived not as a fire but as a well spring of hope. What can explain the regional differences in public responses to SEZ? The state
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economy is slowly improving by the following as posted on the CIA World Fact Book: “In Sept 2013‚ El Salvador was awarded a $277 million compact with the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) - a United States Government agency aimed at stimulating economic growth through investments in education‚ public services‚ enterprise development‚ and transportation infrastructure to be signed after February 2014.”
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PAGE NO. 1. Introduction 4-6 THE INDIAN ECONOMY 2. Pre colonial‚ colonial and post-colonial India 7- 15 3. Indian Planning Commission & Liberalisation 16- 20 4. India’s Economic Reforms and Currency Devaluation 21- 29 5. The Five Year Plans In India 30- 56 6. Fiscal Policy of India 57- 63 7. Monetary Policy of India
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1. Labor Demand curve for Perfect Competition and Labor Demand for Labor for Imperfect Competition * Table 1.1 Demand for Labor: Firm selling in a Perfectly Competitive Product Market Units of Labor | TP | MP | Product Price‚ P | Total Revenue‚ TR | MRP (TR/L) | VMP (MP*P) | 4 | 16 | | $2 | $32 | | | 5 | 28 | 12 | 2 | 56 | $24 | $24 | 6 | 37 | 9 | 2 | 74 | 18 | 18 | 7 | 43 | 6 | 2 | 86 | 12 | 12 | 8 | 46 | 3 | 2 | 92 | 6 | 6 | 9 | 48 | 2 | 2 | 96 | 4 | 4 | * X- Axis
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Why the choice of the textbook ECONOMICS‚ An Introduction by Villegas and Abola? * The book is contextualized to the Philippine economic setting---learning of economic principles is immediately related to the current situation and issues facing the economy. Students will therefore be learning not abstract or foreign concepts but concrete ones they can relate with and use to explain socio-economic phenomena they experience‚ and most likely motivate them to take constructive action on these phenomena
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