What do you know about entrepreneurs? How do you think they try to help solve issues related to scarcity?

For example, the upper right cell shows that if expresso advertises and beantown doesn't advertise, expresso will make a profit of $15 million, and beantown will make a profit of $2 million. assume this is a simultaneous game and that expresso and beantown are both profit-maximizing firms. if expresso decides to advertise, it will earn a profit of $ million if beantown advertises and a profit of $ million if beantown does not advertise. if expresso decides not to advertise, it will earn a profit of $ million if beantown advertises and a profit of $ million if beantown does not advertise. if beantown advertises, expresso makes a higher profit if it chooses . if beantown doesn't advertise, expresso makes a higher profit if it chooses . suppose that both firms start off not advertising. if the firms act independently, what strategies will they end up choosing? expresso will choose to advertise and beantown will choose not to advertise. expresso will choose not to advertise and beantown will choose to advertise. both firms will choose to advertise. both firms will choose not to advertise.

Why do you think the federal government commits so much time and so many resources to supporting small businesses when they make less of a contribution to the overall economy than large corporations?

7. problems and applications q7 congress and the president decide that the united states should reduce air pollution by reducing its use of gasoline. they impose a $0.50 tax on each gallon of gasoline sold. suppose they decided to impose the tax on consumers. in the following graph, shows the effect of a $0.50 tax on each gallon of gasoline sold imposed on consumers by shifting the demand or supply curve. demand supply 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 3.0 2.5 2.0 1.5 1.0 0.5 0 price of gasoline (dollars per gallon) quantity of gasoline (thousands of gallons) demand s 1 s 2 true or false: the price producers receive will be higher if the tax were imposed on consumers. true false if the demand for gasoline were more elastic, this tax would be effective in reducing the quantity of gasoline consumed. true or false: consumers of gasoline are by this tax. true false workers in the oil industry are by this tax.