A competitive firm’s production function is f(x1,x2)=12x112+4x212the price offactor 1 is $1 and the price of factor 2 is $2. The price of output is $4. What is the profit maximizing quantityof output?

Which of the following housing decisions provides a person with both housing and an investment? a. selling a share in a cooperative. b. buying a single-family home. c. renting an apartment. d. subletting a condominium. 2b2t

Maldonia has a comparative advantage in the production of , while lamponia has a comparative advantage in the production of . suppose that maldonia and lamponia specialize in the production of the goods in which each has a comparative advantage. after specialization, the two countries can produce a total of million pounds of lemons and million pounds of coffee.

Label each of the following statements true, false, or uncertain. explain your choice carefully. a. workers benefit equally from the process of creative destruction. b. in the past two decades, the real wages of low-skill u. s. workers have declined relative to the real wages of high-skill workers. c. technological progress leads to a decrease in employment if, and only if, the increase in output is smaller than the increase in productivity. d. the apparent decrease in the natural rate of unemployment in the united states in the second-half of the 1990s can be explained by the fact that productivity growth was unexpectedly high during that period.