Balin purchases fair trade cocoa out of concern for workers' rights and environmental sustainability. he could purchase cocoa of equal quality at a lower price.
behavioral economists would consider balin's purchase:

a) unusual in that it demonstrates concern for others.
b) purely self-interested but motivated by something other than his financial well-being.
c) as evidence that balin is not acting purely in his self-interest.
d) a bad decision because it ignores important information that could improve balin's well-being.

Kendra knight took part in a friendly game of touch football. she had played before and was familiar with football. michael jewett was on her team. in the course of play, michael bumped into kendra and knocked her to the ground. he stepped on her hand, causing injury to a little finger that later required its amputation. she sued michael for damages. he defended on the ground that she had assumed the risk. kendra claimed that assumption of risk could not be raised as a defense because the state legislature had adopted the standard of comparative negligence. what happens if contributory negligence applies? what happens if the defense of comparative negligence applies?

In a fixed-term, level-payment reverse mortgage, sometimes called a reverse annuity mortgage, or ram, a lender agrees to pay the homeowner a monthly payment, or annuity, and expects to be repaid from the homeowner’s equity when he or she sells the home or obtains other financing to pay off the ram. consider a household that owns a $150,000 home free and clear of mortgage debt. the ram lender agrees to a $100,000 ram for 10 years at 6 percent. assume payments are made annually, at the beginning of each year to the homeowner. calculate the annual payment on the ram.

Which of the following is considered part of a country’s infrastructure?