Farmer McDonald sells wheat to a broker in Kansas City, Missouri. Because the market for wheat is generally considered to be perfectly competitive, Mr. McDonald maximizes his profit by choosing

How does the prisoners’ dilemma game apply to real-life situations?

Scenario 16-2 Vincent operates a scenic tour business in Boston. He has one bus that can fit 50 people per tour and each tour lasts 2 hours. His total cost of operating one tour is fixed at $450. Vincent’s cost is not reduced if he runs a tour with a partially full bus. While his cost is the same for all tours, Vincent charges each passenger their willingness to pay: adults $18 per trip, children $10 per trip, and senior citizens $12 per trip. At those rates, on a typical day Vincent’s demand is: ​ Passenger Type Willingness to Pay (Dollars per unit) Quantity Demanded (Units) Adult 18 70 Children 10 25 Senior Citizens 12 55 ​ Assume that Vincent’s customers are always available for the tour; therefore, he can fill his bus for each tour as long as there is sufficient total demand for the day. ​ ​Refer to Scenario 16-2. What is Vincent’s total revenue on a typical day?

For a monopolist, an increase in output sold causes marginal revenue to be negative when

Suppose a market is initially perfectly competitive with many firms selling an identical product. Over time, however, suppose the merging of firms results in the market being served by only three or four firms selling this same product. As a result, we would expect

Monopolistic competition is considered inefficient because

When an industry has many firms, the industry is

Table 18-5The table shows the town of Driveaway’s demand schedule for gasoline. Assume the town’s gasoline seller(s) incurs a cost of $2 for each gallon sold, with no fixed cost. ​ Quantity (Gallons) Price (Dollars per gallon) Total Revenue (Dollars) 0 8 0 50 7 350 100 6 600 150 5 750 200 4 800 250 3 750 300 2 600 350 1 350 400 0 0 ​ ​Refer to Table 18-5. If the market for gasoline in Driveaway is perfectly competitive, then the equilibrium price of gasoline is

A movie theater can increase its profits through price discrimination by charging a higher price to adults and a lower price to children if it

Scenario 14-3 Mary is an organic cauliflower farmer, but she also spends part of her day as a professional organizing consultant. As a consultant, Mary helps people organize their houses. Due to the popularity of her home-organization services, Farmer Mary has more clients requesting her services than she has time to help if she maintains her farming business. Farmer Mary charges $30 an hour for her home-organization services. One spring day, Mary spends 8 hours in her fields planting $130 worth of seeds on her farm. She expects that the seeds she planted will yield $300 worth of cauliflower.Refer to Scenario 14-3. What is the total opportunity cost of the day that Farmer Mary spent in the field planting cauliflower?