Buyers and sellers who have no influence on market price are referred to as ( )
A. market pawns.
B. monopolists.
C. price takers.
D. price setters.
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A downward-sloping demand curve illustrates ( )
A. that demand decreases over time.
B. that prices fall over time.
C. the relationship between income and quantity demanded.
D. the law of demand.
The difference between accounting profit and economic profit is ( )
A. explicit costs.
B. total revenue
C. implicit costs.
D. marginal product.
Which of the following will cause an increase in consumer surplus? ( )
A. an increase in the production cost of the good
B. a technological improvement in the production of the good
C. a decrease in the number of sellers of the good
D. the imposition of a binding price floor in the market
When a good is taxed ( )
A. both buyers and sellers of the good are made worse off.
B. only buyers are made worse off, because they ultimately bear the burden of the tax.
C. only sellers are made worse off, because they ultimately bear the burden of the tax.
D. neither buyers nor sellers are made worse off, since tax revenue is used to provide goods and services that would otherwise not be provided in a market economy.