Economists assume that the goal of the firm is to maximize total ( )
A. revenue.
B. profits.
C. costs.
D. satisfaction.
Jane was a partner at a law firm earning $223,000 per year. She left the firm to open her own law practice. In the first year of business she generated revenues of $347,000 and incurred explicit costs of $163,000. Jane’s economic profit from her first year in her own practice is ( )
A. -$39,000.
B. $124,000.
C. $163,000.
D. $184,000.
The things that must be forgone to acquire a good are called ( )
A. implicit costs.
B. opportunity costs.
C. explicit costs.
D. accounting costs.
The value of a business owner's time is an example of ( )
A. an opportunity cost.
B. a fixed cost.
C. an explicit cost.
D. total revenue.