Charles loves watching downton abbey on his local public tv station, but he never sends any money to support the station during its fundraising drives. economists would call charles afree rider .true or false: the government can solve the problem caused by people like charles by taxing people who watch the show. truefalsetrue or false: the private market can solve this problem by broadcasting downton abbey on cable tv, since then the good would be excludable and thus no longer a public good.

Amarket is said to be equilibrium when quantity demanded is equal to quantity supplied. critically analyse the above statement by giving different types of market

Verizon communications, inc., provides the following footnote relating to its leasing activities in its 10-k report. the aggregate minimum rental commitments under noncancelable leases for the periods shown at december 31, 2010, are as follows: years (dollars in millions) capital leases operatingleases 2011 $97 $1,898 2012 74 1,720 2013 70 1,471 2014 54 1,255 2015 42 1,012 thereafter 81 5,277 total minimum 418 $ 12,633 rental commitments less interest and (86) executory costs present value of 332 minimum lease payments less current (75) installments long-term obligation $257 at december 31, 2010 (a) confirm that verizon capitalized its capital leases using a rate of 7.4 %. (b) compute the present value of verizon's operating leases, assuming an 7.4% discount rate and rounding the remaining lease term to 3 decimal places. (use a financial calculator or excel to compute. do not round until your final answers. round each answer to the nearest whole number.)

Which of the following is not an example of one of the four mail advantages of prices on a free market economy