When the Federal government takes action to change taxes and spending to stimulate the economy such policy is: a. Passive
b. Automatic
c. Discretionary
d. Nondiscretionary

In which of the following situations would the price of a good be most likely to increase? a. a breakthrough in productive technology enables a company to increase its output. b. an increase in production costs results from a rise in wages. c. there's a sudden increase in the number of companies competing to sell the good. d. a drop in demand happens too quickly for producers to decrease production to keep up.

There are more than two types of bachelors’ degrees true or false?

Consider the local telephone company, a natural monopoly. the following graph shows the monthly demand curve for phone services and the company’s marginal revenue (mr), marginal cost (mc), and average total cost (atc) curves. 0 2 4 6 8 10 12 14 16 18 20 100 90 80 70 60 50 40 30 20 10 0 price (dollars per subscription) quantity (thousands of subscriptions) d mr mc atc 8, 60 suppose that the government has decided not to regulate this industry, and the firm is free to maximize profits, without constraints. complete the first row of the following table. pricing mechanism short run long-run decision quantity price profit (subscriptions) (dollars per subscription) profit maximization marginal-cost pricing average-cost pricing suppose that the government forces the monopolist to set the price equal to marginal cost. complete the second row of the previous table. suppose that the government forces the monopolist to set the price equal to average total cost. complete the third row of the previous table. under average-cost pricing, the government will raise the price of output whenever a firm’s costs increase, and lower the price whenever a firm’s costs decrease. over time, under the average-cost pricing policy, what will the local telephone company most likely do