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Chapter 2: Q. b - For Critical Thinking (page 32)
What must be true of the trade-off perceived by people who have multiple sex partners?
The opportunity cost of time lost.
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Based on the information in Problems 2-15, should you and your roommate specialize in a particular task? Why? And if so, who should specialize in which task? Show how much labor time you save if you choose to “trade” an appropriate task with your roommate as opposed to doing it yourself.
Recently, a woman named Mary Krawiec attended an auction in Troy, New York. At the auction, a bank was seeking to sell a foreclosed property: a large Victorian house suffering from years of neglect in a neighborhood in which many properties had been on the market for years yet remained unsold. Her \(10 offer was the highest bid in the auction, and she handed over a \)10 bill for a title to ownership. Once she acquired the house, however, she became responsible for all taxes on the property and for an overdue water bill of \(2,000. In addition, to make the house habitable, she and her husband devoted months of time and unpaid labor to renovating the property. In the process, they incurred explicit expenses totaling \)65,000. Why do you suppose that the bank was willing to sell the house to Ms. Krawiec for only $10? (Hint: Contemplate the bank’s expected gain, net of all explicit and opportunity costs, if it had attempted to make the house habitable.)
Suppose that in Fig 2-2, the nation currently is producing combination D in the table and on the graph of the production possibilities curve. What is the opportunity cost of producing 20 million more tablet devices and moving to production combination F?
Country A and country B produce the same consumption goods and capital goods and currently have identical production possibilities curves. They also have the same resources at present, and they have access to the same technology.
a. At present, does either country have a comparative advantage in producing capital goods? Consumption goods?
b. Currently, country A has chosen to produce more consumption goods, compared with country B. Other things being equal, which country will experience the larger outward shift of its PPC during the next year?
Distinguish between absolute and comparative advantage.
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