Chapter 1: The Power of Markets 1. What are the two basic assumptions that economists make about individuals and firms? The two basic assumptions that economists make about individuals and firms are that they attempt to maximize their utility using the available resources and that they want to make the most amount of profit possible. 2. What is the role and significance of prices in the market economy? Prices in the market economy are extremely useful because they help gauge what
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Organizational Behavior‚ 15e (Robbins/Judge) Chapter 6 Perception and Individual Decision Making 1) ________ is the process by which individuals organize and interpret their sensory impressions in order to give meaning to their environment. A) Sensation B) Impression C) Apprehension D) Attribution E) Perception Answer: E Explanation: E) Perception is defined as a process by which individuals organize and interpret their sensory impressions in order to give meaning to their environment
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Summaries Article 1 Mai‚ C.-C.‚ Peng‚ S.-K.‚ & Tabuchi‚ T. (2008). Economic geography with tariff competition. Regional Science and Urban Economics‚ 38(5)‚ 478-486. Tariff works as a tool to have government’s control over the trade .With the help of this tool a country can increase its net revenue and maintain a healthy competition in local market but high tariff repels the foreign firms sometime. Possible benefits: 1. Homegrown manufacturer’s ability to compete on price 2. Raise
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Economic Interdependence: The Greatest Approach for Peace Between 1939 and 1945‚ World War II took the lives of over 60 million people worldwide‚ making it the deadliest military conflict in the history of mankind. These statistics are so staggering that if famine were hypothetically eradicated from the earth‚ war would stand as the largest executioner of mankind. With that in mind‚ it would be safe to assume that today’s global leaders are in no way in favor of engaging in an armed conflict with
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Chapter 1 – Applied Problem 1 § Explicit costs are monetary costs of using market-supplied resources. Explicit Costs | | Cost of Products and Services | $355‚000 | Selling Expenses | $155‚000 | Administrative Expenses | $45‚000 | Interest Expense | $45‚000 | Legal Expenses | $28‚000 | Income Taxes | $165‚000 | Total Explicit Costs | $793‚000 | § Implicit costs are non-monetary costs of using owner-supplied resources. Implicit Costs | | Forgone Salary | $175‚000
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Problems Chapter 1: Managers‚ Profits‚ and Markets Chapter 3: Marginal analysis for Optimal Decisions the correct answers are marked red. 1 Economic theory is a valuable tool for business decision making because it a. identifies for managers the essential information for making a decision. b. assumes away the problem. c. creates a realistic‚ complex model of the business firm. d. provides an easy solution to complex business problems. 2 Economic profit is
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Definition: In economics‚ production is the act of creating output‚ a good or service which has value and contributes to the utility of individuals.[1] The act may or may not include factors of production other than labor. Any effort directed toward the realization of a desired product or service is a "productive" effort and the performance of such act is production. The relation between the amount of inputs used in production and the resulting amount of output is called the production function
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PERFORMANCE DURING DIFFICULT ECONOMIC CONDITIONS For the Department of Business Innovation and Skills (BIS) John Kitching Robert Blackburn David Smallbone Small Business Research Centre‚ Kingston University Sarah Dixon School of Management‚ Bath University June 2009 URN 09/1031 Contents EXECUTIVE SUMMARY i 1. INTRODUCTION‚ RESEARCH OBJECTIVES AND METHODS 1 2. RESEARCH CONTEXT 1 2.1 Defining Difficult Economic Conditions 1 2.2 The
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Tax base > income‚ sales‚ property‚ capital gains/loses What is a good tax system? 1 – distribution of tax burden should be fair > tax equity 2 – tax system should improve the smallest excess burden and should minimize distortions to economic behavior > tax efficiency 3 – administration should be easy and administrative costs should be as low as possible 4 – tax system should be easy to understand and relatively easy to comply with and it should be applied in a non-arbitrary way
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Chapter 1 1. Describe some of the trade-offs faced by each of the following: 1. a family deciding whether to buy a new car 2. a member of Congress deciding how much to spend on national parks 3. a company president deciding whether to open a new factory 4. a professor deciding how much to prepare for class 5. a recent college graduate deciding whether to go to graduate school 2. You are trying to decide whether to take a vacation. Most of the costs of the
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