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1
CHAPTER
First Principles
1. In each of the following situations, identify which of the twelve principles is at work.
a. You choose to shop at the local discount store rather than paying a higher price
for the same merchandise at the local department store.
b. On your spring break trip, your budget is limited to $35 a day.
c. The student union provides a website on which departing students can sell items
such as used books, appliances, and furniture rather than giving them away to
their roommates as they formerly did.
d. After a hurricane did extensive damage to homes on the island of St. Crispin,
homeowners wanted to purchase many more building materials and hire many
more workers than were available on the island. As a result, prices for goods and
services rose dramatically across the board.
e. You buy a used textbook from your roommate. Your roommate uses the money to
buy songs from iTunes.
f. You decide how many cups of coffee to have when studying the night before an
exam by considering how much more work you can do by having another cup ver-
sus how jittery it will make you feel.
g. There is limited lab space available to do the project required in Chemistry 101. The
lab supervisor assigns lab time to each student based on when that student is able to
come.
h. You realize that you can graduate a semester early by forgoing a semester of study
abroad.
i. At the student union, there is a bulletin board on which people advertise used
items for sale, such as bicycles. Once you have adjusted for differences in quality,
all the bikes sell for about the same price.
j. You are better at performing lab experiments, and your lab partner is better at
writing lab reports. So the two of you agree that you will do all the experiments,
and she will write up all the reports.
k. State governments mandate that it is illegal to drive without passing a driving exam.
l. Your parents’ after-tax income has increased because of a tax cut passed by
Congress. They therefore increase your allowance, which you spend on a spring
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S1o. lutio
a. People usually exploit opportunities to make themselves better off. In this case,
you make yourself better off by buying merchandise at a lower price.
b. Resources are scarce. Since you have only $35 a day, your resources are limited
(scarce).
c. Markets usually lead to efficiency. The market here is represented by the buyers
and sellers who use the student union website to trade goods, in contrast to the
“nonmarket” of simply giving items away to one’s roommate. The market is effi -
cient because it enables people who want to sell items to find those who want to
buy those items. This is in contrast to a system in which items are simply left with
a roommate, who may have little or no desire to have them.
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d. Overall spending sometimes gets out of line with the economy’s productive capac-
ity. The spending by St. Crispin homeowners on building materials and workers
fell short of the economy’s ability to produce those goods and services. As a result,
prices on the island rose across the board (inflation).
e. One person’s spending is another person’s income. Your spending on the used
textbook is your roommate’s income.
f. “How much” is a decision at the margin. Your decision is one of “how much”
coffee to consume, and you evaluate the trade-off between keeping yourself awake
and becoming more jittery from one more cup of coffee.
g. Resources should be used as efficiently as possible to achieve society’s goals.
Allocating scarce lab space according to when each student can use that space is
efficient.
h. The real cost of something is what you must give up to get it. The real cost of a
semester abroad is giving up the opportunity to graduate early.
i. Markets move toward equilibrium. Any bicycle a buyer chooses will leave him or
her equally well off. That is, a buyer who chooses a particular bicycle cannot change
actions and find another bicycle that makes him or her better off. Also, no seller
can take a different action that makes him or her better off: no seller can charge a
higher price for a bicycle of similar quality, since no one would buy that bicycle.
j. There are gains from trade. If each person specializes in what he or she is good at
(that is, in comparison with others that person has an advantage in producing
that good), then there will be gains from specialization and trade.
k. When markets don’t achieve efficiency, government intervention can improve
society’s welfare. Unsafe drivers don’t take into account the dangers they pose to
others and often to themselves. So when unsafe drivers are allowed to drive, every-
one is made worse off. Government intervention improves society’s welfare by
assuring a minimum level of competence in driving.
l. Government policies can change spending. In this case, a tax cut has increased
spending.
2. Describe some of the opportunity costs when you decide to do the following.
a. Attend college instead of taking a job
b. Watch a movie instead of studying for an exam
c. Ride the bus instead of driving your car
S2o. lution
a. One of the opportunity costs of going to college is not being able to take a job.
By choosing to go to college, you give up the income you would have earned on
the job and the valuable on-the-job experience you would have acquired. Another
opportunity cost of going to college is the cost of tuition, books, supplies, and so
on. Alternatively, the benefit of going to college is being able to find a better, more
highly paid job after graduation in addition to the joy of learning.
b. Watching the movie gives you a certain benefit, but allocating your time (a scarce
resource) to watching the movie also involves the opportunity cost of not being
able to study for the exam. As a result, you will likely get a lower grade on the
exam—and all that that implies.
c. Riding the bus gets you where you need to go more cheaply than, but probably not
as conveniently as, driving your car. That is, some of the opportunity costs of
taking the bus involve waiting for the bus, having to walk from the bus stop to
where you need to go rather than parking right outside the building, and probably
a slower journey. If the opportunity cost of your time is high (your time is
valuable), these costs may be prohibitive.
3. Liza needs to buy a textbook for the next economics class. The price at the college
bookstore is $65. One online site offers it for $55 and another site, for $57. All
prices include sales tax. The accompanying table indicates the typical shipping and
handling charges for the textbook ordered online.
Shipping Delivery
method time Charge
Standard shipping 3–7 days $3.99
Second-day air 2 business days 8.98
Next-day air 1 business day 13.98
a. What is the opportunity cost of buying online instead of at the bookstore? Note
that if you buy the book online, you must wait to get it.
b. Show the relevant choices for this student. What determines which of these
options the student will choose?
S3o. lutio
a. The opportunity cost of buying online is whatever you must give up to get the
book online. So the opportunity cost of buying online is the sum of the shipping
charges plus the opportunity cost of your time spent waiting for the book to arrive
(at the bookstore the book is available immediately) minus the cost saving you
receive by buying online versus buying at the bookstore.
b. Below is a list of all of Liza’s options and their purely monetary costs:
Buy from bookstore $65
Buy from first site (price $55), 1-day delivery $55 + $13.98 = $68.98
Buy from first site (price $55), 2-day delivery $55 + $ 8.98 = $63.98
Buy from first site (price $55), 3- to 7-day delivery $55 + $ 3.99 = $58.99
Buy from second site (price $57), 1-day delivery $57 + $13.98 = $70.98
Buy from second site (price $57), 2-day delivery $57 + $ 8.98 = $65.98
Buy from second site (price $57), 3- to 7-day delivery $57 + $ 3.99 = $60.99
It is clear that Liza would never buy from the second site, where the book costs
$57: for each delivery time, she is better off buying the book from the first site,
where the book costs $55. It is also clear that she would never buy the book from
the first site and have it delivered the next business day: it costs more that way
($68.98) than getting it from the bookstore (assuming that it is costless to get to
and from the bookstore). But it is not clear whether she will buy the book from
the bookstore or the first site with delivery times of 2 or 3–7 days: this depends on
her opportunity cost of time. The higher the cost of waiting, the more likely she is
to buy the book from the bookstore, where she does not need to wait.
S4o. lutio
a. The worse the job market, the lower the opportunity cost of getting a graduate
degree. One of the opportunity costs of going to graduate school is not being able
to work. But if the job market is bad, the salary you can expect to earn is low or
you might be unemployed—so the opportunity cost of going to school is also low.
b. When the economy is slow, the opportunity cost of people’s time is also lower: the
wages they could earn by working longer hours are lower than when the economy
is booming. As a result, the opportunity cost of spending time doing your own
repairs is lower—so more people will decide to do their own repairs.
c. The opportunity cost of parkland is lower in suburban areas. The price per square
foot of land is much higher in urban than in suburban areas. By creating park-
land, you therefore give up the opportunity to make much more money in cities
than in the suburbs.
d. The opportunity cost of time is higher for busy people. Driving long distances to
supermarkets takes time that could be spent doing other things. Therefore, busy
people are more likely to use a nearby convenience store.
e. Before 10:00 A.M. the opportunity cost of time for many students is very high—it
means giving up an extra hour’s sleep. That extra hour is much more valuable
before 10:00 A.M. than later in the day.
5. In the following examples, state how you would use the principle of marginal analy-
sis to make a decision.
a. Deciding how many days to wait before doing your laundry
b. Deciding how much library research to do before writing your term paper
c. Deciding how many bags of chips to eat
d. Deciding how many lectures of a class to skip
S5o. lutio
a. Each day that you wait to do your laundry imposes a cost: you have fewer clean
clothes to choose from. But each day that you wait also confers a benefit: you can
spend your time doing other things. You will wait another day to do your laundry
if the benefit of waiting to do the laundry that day is greater than the cost.
b. The more research you do, the better your paper will be. But there is also an
opportunity cost: every additional hour you spend doing research means you can-
not do other things. You will weigh the opportunity cost of doing one more hour
of research against the benefit gained (in terms of an improved paper) from doing
research. You will do one more hour of research if the benefit of that hour out-
weighs the cost.
c. Each bag of chips you eat gives you a benefit: it satisfies your hunger. But it also
has a cost: the money spent for each bag (and, if you are weight-conscious, the
additional calories). You will weigh the cost against the benefit of eating one more
bag. If the cost is less than the benefit, you will eat that one more bag of chips.
d. Each lecture that you skip implies a cost: getting further behind with the material
and having to teach it to yourself just before the exam. But each skipped lecture
also means you can spend the time doing other things. You will continue to skip
lectures if the cost of skipping is lower than the benefit of spending that time
doing other things.
6. This morning you made the following individual choices: you bought a bagel and
coffee at the local café, you drove to school in your car during rush hour, and you
typed your roommate’s term paper because you are a fast typist—in return for which
she will do your laundry for a month. For each of these actions, describe how your
individual choices interacted with the individual choices made by others. Were other
people left better off or worse off by your choices in each case?
S6o. lutio
When you bought the bagel and coffee, you paid a price for them. You would not
have bought that breakfast if your enjoyment of it (your welfare) had not been great-
er than the price you paid. Similarly, the café owner would not have sold you the
bagel and coffee if the price he received from you were less than the cost to him of
making them. This is an example of how everybody gains from trade: both you and
the café owner are better off.
When you chose to drive your car during the rush hour, you added to the congestion
on the road. Your choice had a side effect for other motorists: your driving slowed
everybody else down just a little bit more. Your choice made other motorists worse off.
Typing your roommate’s term paper in exchange for her doing your laundry is anoth-
er example of the gains that come from trade. Both of you voluntarily agreed to
specialize in a task that each is comparatively better at because you expected to gain
from this interaction. Your choice made both you and your roommate better off.
7. The Hatfield family lives on the east side of the Hatatoochie River, and the McCoy family
lives on the west side. Each family’s diet consists of fried chicken and corn- on-the-cob,
and each is self-sufficient, raising their own chickens and growing their own corn.
Explain the conditions under which each of the following would be true.
a. The two families are made better off when the Hatfields specialize in raising chick-
ens, the McCoys specialize in growing corn, and the two families trade.
b. The two families are made better off when the McCoys specialize in raising chick-
ens, the Hatfields specialize in growing corn, and the two families trade.
S7o. lutio
a. Gains from trade usually arise from specialization. If the Hatfields (compared
to the McCoys) are better at raising chickens and the McCoys (compared to the
Hatfields) are better at growing corn, then there will be gains from specialization
and trade.
b. Similar to the answer to part a, if the McCoys (compared to the Hatfields) are
better at raising chickens and the Hatfields (compared to the McCoys) are better
at growing corn, then there will be gains from specialization and trade.
8. Which of the following situations describes an equilibrium? Which does not? If the
situation does not describe an equilibrium, what would an equilibrium look like?
a. Many people regularly commute from the suburbs to downtown Pleasantville. Due
to traffic congestion, the trip takes 30 minutes when you travel by highway but
only 15 minutes when you go by side streets.
b. At the intersection of Main and Broadway are two gas stations. One station
charges $3.00 per gallon for regular gas and the other charges $2.85 per gallon.
Customers can get service immediately at the first station but must wait in a long
line at the second.
c. Every student enrolled in Economics 101 must also attend a weekly tutorial. This year
there are two sections offered: section A and section B, which meet at the same time
in adjoining classrooms and are taught by equally competent instructors. Section A is
overcrowded, with people sitting on the floor and often unable to see what is written
on the board at the front of the room. Section B has many empty seats.
S8o. lutio
a. This is not an equilibrium. Assume that all people care about is the travel time to
work (not, for instance, how many turns they need to make or what the scenery
is like). Some people could be better off using the side streets, which would cut
down their travel time. Eventually, as the situation moves to equilibrium (that is,
as more people use the side streets), travel times on the highway and along the
side streets will equalize.
b. This might be an equilibrium. Those who buy gas at the first station would be
worse off by buying gas at the second if the value of their time spent waiting
exceeded the savings at the pump: they would save 15 cents per gallon but would
incur the opportunity cost of waiting in a long line. You should expect very busy
people (a high opportunity cost of time) to buy gas at the first station. Those
who buy gas at the second station might be worse off by buying gas at the first:
they would not have to wait in line but would pay 15 cents more per gallon. You
should expect people with a lot of free time (a low opportunity cost of time) to
buy gas at the second station.
c. This is not an equilibrium. If students from section A attended section B instead,
they would be better off: they could get seats and see the board without incurring
any cost (since the section meets at the same time and is taught by an equally
competent instructor). Over time, you should expect students to switch from
section A to section B until equilibrium is established.
9. In each of the following cases, explain whether you think the situation is efficient or
not. If it is not efficient, why not? What actions would make the situation efficient?
a. Electricity is included in the rent at your dorm. Some residents in your dorm leave
lights, computers, and appliances on when they are not in their rooms.
b. Although they cost the same amount to prepare, the cafeteria in your dorm con-
sistently provides too many dishes that diners don’t like, such as tofu casserole,
and too few dishes that diners do like, such as roast turkey with dressing.
c. The enrollmentfor a particular course exceeds thespaces available. Somestudents
who need to take this course to complete their major are unable to get a space
even though others who are taking it as an elective do get a space.
S9o. lutio
a. This is not efficient. If the lights were turned off, some students could be made
better off without making other students worse off because the college would save
money on electricity that it could spend on student programs. By leaving lights
and appliances on when leaving their rooms, residents do not take into account
the negative side effect they impose on their college—the higher cost of electricity.
If students were forced to pay their own individual electricity costs (that is, if they
fully took into account the cost of their actions), then they would turn the lights
and appliances off when leaving their rooms. This situation would be efficient.
b. This is not efficient. Instead of serving dishes that many diners do not like, the caf-
eteria should serve more of the equal-cost dishes that diners do like. That way, some
students could be made better off without other students being made worse off.
c. This is not efficient. In an efficient scheme, spaces would be allocated to those
students who value them most. In this case, however, some spaces are allocated
to students who value them less (those who take the course as an elective) than
other students (those who need the course to graduate). Efficiency could be
improved as follows: if a student who is not currently enrolled in the course val-
ues it more than a student who is enrolled, then the unenrolled student should be
willing to pay the enrolled student to give up his or her space. At some price, this trade
would make both students better off and the outcome would be efficient.
10. Discuss the efficiency and equity implications of each of the following policies. How
would you go about balancing the concerns of equity and efficiency in these areas?
a. The government pays the full tuition for every college student to study whatever
subject he or she wishes.
b. When people lose their jobs, the government provides unemployment benefits
until they find new ones.
S10o. lution
a. Although this policy is equitable, it may not be efficient, depending on the benefi-
cial side effects of education. It does allow everyone, regardless of ability to pay, to
attend college. But it may not be efficient: subsidizing the full cost of tuition for
everyone lowers the opportunity cost of going to college, and this might lead some
people to go to college when they could more productively follow a career that
does not require a college education. And since resources (including government
money) are scarce, paying tuition for these people has an opportunity cost: some
other (possibly more worthwhile) government projects cannot be undertaken.
One way of getting around this problem is to award scholarships based on aca-
demic ability.
b. Although this policy may be equitable (it guarantees everyone a certain amount of
income), it may not be efficient. People respond to incentives. If unemployment
becomes more attractive because of the unemployment benefit, some unemployed
people may no longer try to find a job or may not try to find one as quickly as
they would without the benefit. Ways to get around this problem are to provide
unemployment benefits only for a limited time or to require recipients to prove
that they are actively searching for a new job.
11. Governments often adopt certain policies in order to promote desired behavior
among their citizens. For each of the following policies, determine what the incentive
is and what behavior the government wishes to promote. In each case, why do you
think that the government might wish to change people’s behavior, rather than allow
their actions to be solely determined by individual choice?
a. A tax of $5 per pack is imposed on cigarettes.
b. The government pays parents $100 when their child is vaccinated for measles.
c. The government pays college students to tutor children from low-income families.
d. The government imposes a tax on the amount of air pollution that a company
discharges.
S11o. lutio
a. This policy creates an incentive to smoke less by making a pack of cigarettes more
costly. This is exactly what policy makers wish to promote. Cigarettes have unde-
sirable side effects on other people, which smokers do not (or only insufficiently)
take into account. One is that other people have to breathe in second-hand
smoke. Another is the cost of health care: when smokers who need treatment
for lung cancer are covered by Medicare or Medicaid, the rest of society has to
foot the bill. Since individuals do not take these costs (costs that arise for other
people) into account in deciding whether or not (or how much) to smoke, the
amount of cigarettes smoked will be inefficiently high. The tax is a way to make
people take these costs into account in deciding whether or not to smoke.
b. This policy creates an incentive to have children vaccinated: it increases the ben-
efit to parents from vaccination of their children. Getting vaccinated means not
only that a child will not contract the measles but also that he or she cannot pass
the measles on to other children. That is, there is a side effect for other people
(their children get sick less often) that parents do not take into account in their
decision of whether or not to have their own child vaccinated. The subsidy is a
way to make individuals take into account in their decisions the benefit they can
create for other people.
c. This policy creates incentives for low-income families to get college students to
tutor their children, since getting a tutor is now cheaper or free. This results in
better performance in school by these children and higher levels of educational
attainment. This has positive side effects for the rest of society: the better children
do in school, the more productive, happier, and healthier citizens they will be.
d. This tax creates the incentive to emit fewer air pollutants. Pollution has a nega-
tive side effect for others: it decreases air quality (for instance, it contributes to
the formation of ozone smog) and results in a variety of health complications
(for instance, asthma). In deciding how much pollution to discharge, a company
does not take these negative side effects sufficiently into account. The tax is a way
to make pollution more expensive, that is, to make the company face the cost it
imposes on others.
12. In each of the following situations, explain how government intervention could
improve society’s welfare by changing people’s incentives. In what sense is the mar-
ket going wrong?
a. Pollution from auto emissions has reached unhealthy levels.
b. Everyone in Woodville would be better off if streetlights were installed in the
town. But no individual resident is willing to pay for installation of a streetlight
in front of his or her house because it is impossible to recoup the cost by charging
other residents for the benefit they receive from it.
S12o. lution
a. In deciding how much to drive, each driver does not take into account the cost of
auto emissions he or she imposes on others. That is, the market will lead to there
being too much pollution. One way for governments to intervene would be to tax
fuel or to tax cars that get low gas mileage. Or governments could subsidize new
and cleaner fuels or technologies, such as hybrid cars. This would create incentives
for people to switch to cars that use less polluting gas or to drive less.
b. The market in this situation leads to too few (or no) streetlights in Woodville.
Governments could improve residents’ welfare by paying for streetlight installation
from the taxes paid by residents.
13. In 2010, Tim Geithner, Treasury secretary at the time, published an article defending the
administration’s policies. “The recession that began in late 2007 was extraordi- narily
severe,” he declared, “but the actions we took at its height to stimulate the
economy helped arrest the freefall, preventing an even deeper collapse and putting the
economy on the road to recovery. Which two of the three principles of economy- wide
interaction are at work in this statement?
S13o. lutio
The Obama stimulus is an example of government policy aimed at changing spend-
ing: by cutting taxes and also by directly increasing government spending, the pack-
age sought to boost overall spending in the economy. And as spending rises, firms
increase production. This is an example of the principle that one person’s spending is
another person’s income.
14. In August 2007, a sharp downturn in the U.S. housing market reduced the income
of many who worked in the home construction industry. A Wall Street Journal news
article reported that Walmart’s wire-transfer business was likely to suffer because
many construction workers are Hispanics who regularly send part of their wages back
to relatives in their home countries via Walmart. With this information, use one of
the principles of economy-wide interaction to trace a chain of links that explains
how reduced spending for U.S. home purchases is likely to affect the performance of
the Mexican economy.
S14o. lutio
The correct principle in this case is that one person’s spending is another person’s
income. Here, a reduction in spending for U.S. home purchases leads to a fall in the
income of workers in the home construction industry. This, in turn, leads to a
reduction in funds sent by workers to relatives in Mexico, which leads to a reduction
in spending by Mexican households. This, in turn, leads to less business for Mexican
firms and job losses in Mexico. Ultimately, the Mexican economy is likely to be
adversely affected by the downturn in the U.S. housing market.
15. In 2012, Hurricane Sandy caused massive destruction to the northeast United States.
Tens of thousands of people lost their homes and possessions. Even those who
weren’t directly affected by the destruction were hurt because businesses and jobs
dried up. Using one of the principles of economy-wide interaction, explain how gov-
ernment intervention can help in this situation.
S15o. lutio
The destruction caused by Hurricane Sandy caused a reduction in spending by
residents in the area. This, in turn, led to reduced income as businesses failed
or contracted and employment suffered. The government can help remedy the
situation by spending more in the area—say, by employing people for cleanup and
construction—to counterbalance the reduced spending by private residents. This is an
example of the principle that government policies can change spending.
16. During the Great Depression, food was left to rot in the fields or fields that had once
been actively cultivated were left fallow. Use one of the principles of economy-wide
interaction to explain how this could have occurred.
S16o. lutio
During the Great Depression, spending fell far short of the country’s capacity to pro-
duce. This reflects the principle that overall spending sometimes gets out of line with
the economy’s productive capacity. As a result of the plunge in spending during the
Great Depression, farmers could not find enough buyers for food that had already
been produced, so it was left to rot. Likewise, some farmers left their fields fallow.
1. Two important industries on the island of Bermuda are fishing and tourism.
According to data from the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
and the Bermuda Department of Statistics, in 2009 the 306 registered fishermen in
Bermuda caught 387 metric tons of marine fish. And the 2,719 people employed by
hotels produced 554,400 hotel stays (measured by the number of visitor arrivals).
Suppose that this production point is efficient in production. Assume also that the
opportunity cost of 1 additional metric ton of fish is 2,000 hotel stays and that this
opportunity cost is constant (the opportunity cost does not change).
a. If all 306 registered fishermen were to be employed by hotels (in addition to the
2,719 people already working in hotels), how many hotel stays could Bermuda
produce?
b. If all 2,719 hotel employees were to become fishermen (in addition to the 306
fishermen already working in the fishing industry), how many metric tons of fish
could Bermuda produce?
c. Draw a production possibility frontier for Bermuda, with fish on the horizontal axis
and hotel stays on the vertical axis, and label Bermuda’s actual production point
for the year 2009.
S1o. lutio
a. Forgoing the production of 1 metric ton of fish allows Bermuda to produce 2,000
additional hotel stays. Therefore, forgoing the production of 387 metric tons of
fish allows Bermuda to produce 2,000 387 = 774,000 additional hotel stays. If
all fishermen worked in the hotel industry, Bermuda could produce
554,000 + 774,000 = 1,328,400 hotel stays.
b. Forgoing the production of 2,000 hotel stays allows Bermuda to produce 1 addi-
tional metric ton of fish, so giving up 554,400 hotel stays allows Bermuda to produce
554,400/2,000 = 277.2 additional metric tons of fish. If all hotel employees worked in
the fishing industry, Bermuda could produce 387 + 277.2 = 664.2 metric tons of fish.
c. The accompanying diagram shows the production possibility frontier for Bermuda.
Note that it is a straight line because the opportunity cost is constant. Point A is
Bermuda’s actual production point.
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S2o. lutio
a. This point is feasible but not efficient in production. Producing 1.8 billion bushels
of wheat and 9 billion bushels of corn is less of both wheat and corn than is pos-
sible. They could produce more if all the available farmland were cultivated.
b. At this new production point, farmers would now produce 1 billion more bush-
els of wheat and 1.7 billion fewer bushels of corn than at their original produc -
tion point. This reflects an opportunity cost of 1.7 bushels of corn per additional
bushel of wheat. But, in fact, this new production point is not feasible because we
know that opportunity costs are increasing. Starting from the original production
point, the opportunity cost of producing 1 more bushel of wheat must be higher
than 1.7 bushels of corn.
c. This new production point is feasible and efficient in production. Along the pro-
duction possibility frontier, the economy must forgo 0.666 bushel of wheat per
additional bushel of corn. So the increase in corn production from 11.807 billion
bushels to 12.044 billion bushels costs the economy (12.044 − 11.807) billion
bushels of corn 0.666 bushel of wheat per bushel of corn = 0.158 bushel of
wheat. This is exactly equal to the actual loss in wheat output: the fall from 2.158
billion to 2 billion bushels of wheat.
3. In the ancient country of Roma, only two goods, spaghetti and meatballs, are pro-
duced. There are two tribes in Roma, the Tivoli and the Frivoli. By themselves, the
Tivoli each month can produce either 30 pounds of spaghetti and no meatballs,
or 50 pounds of meatballs and no spaghetti, or any combination in between. The
Frivoli, by themselves, each month can produce 40 pounds of spaghetti and no meat-
balls, or 30 pounds of meatballs and no spaghetti, or any combination in between.
a. Assume that all production possibility frontiers are straight lines. Draw one
diagram showing the monthly production possibility frontier for the Tivoli and
another showing the monthly production possibility frontier for the Frivoli. Show
how you calculated them.
b. Which tribe has the comparative advantage in spaghetti production? In meatball
production?
In A.D. 100 the Frivoli discover a new technique for making meatballs that doubles
the quantity of meatballs they can produce each month.
c. Draw the new monthly production possibility frontier for the Frivoli.
d. After the innovation, which tribe now has an absolute advantage in producing
meatballs? In producing spaghetti? Which has the comparative advantage in meat-
ball production? In spaghetti production?
S3o. lution
a. The accompanying diagram shows the production possibility frontier for the Tivoli in
panel (a) and for the Frivoli as the line labeled “Original Frivoli PPF” in panel (b).
50 50
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The production possibility frontier for the Tivoli was calculated as follows: the
Tivoli can produce either 30 pounds of spaghetti and no meatballs, or they can
produce no spaghetti but 50 pounds of meatballs. That is, the opportunity cost
of 1 pound of meatballs is 3⁄ 5 of a pound of spaghetti: in order to produce 1 more
pound of meatballs, the Tivoli have to give up 3⁄5 of a pound of spaghetti. This
means that the slope of their production possibility frontier is −3⁄ 5. A similar
argument for the Frivoli shows that their production possibility frontier has a
slope of −4⁄3.
b. For the Tivoli, the opportunity cost of 1 pound of meatballs is 3⁄5 of a pound of
spaghetti. For the Frivoli, the opportunity cost of 1 pound of meatballs is 4⁄ 3
pounds of spaghetti. That is, the Tivoli have a comparative advantage in meatball
production because their opportunity cost is lower. For the Tivoli, the opportunity
cost of 1 pound of spaghetti is 5⁄3 pounds of meatballs. For the Frivoli, the oppor-
tunity cost of 1 pound of spaghetti is 3⁄ 4 pound of meatballs. That is, the Frivoli
have a comparative advantage in spaghetti production because their opportunity
cost is lower.
c. The Frivoli’s new production possibility frontier is the line labeled “New Frivoli
PPF” in panel (b) of the diagram. Instead of producing 30 pounds of meatballs (if
they produce no spaghetti), they can now produce 60 pounds.
d. Now the Frivoli have the absolute advantage in both meatball production and spa-
ghetti production. The Frivoli’s opportunity cost of meatballs has now fallen to 4 ⁄ 6
= 2⁄ 3; that is, for each pound of meatballs that the Frivoli now produce, they have
to give up producing 2⁄ 3 of a pound of spaghetti. Since the Frivoli’s opportunity
cost of meatballs ( 2⁄3) is still higher than the Tivoli’s (3⁄5), the Tivoli still have the
comparative advantage in meatball production. The Frivoli’s opportunity cost of
spaghetti is 3⁄ 2 pounds of meatballs and the Tivoli’s is 5⁄3 pounds of meatballs, so
the Frivoli have the comparative advantage in spaghetti production.
4. One July, the United States exported aircraft worth $1 billion to China and imported
aircraft worth only $19,000 from China. During the same month, however, the
United States imported $83 million worth of men’s trousers, slacks, and jeans from
China but exported only $8,000 worth of trousers, slacks, and jeans to China. Using
what you have learned about how trade is determined by comparative advantage,
answer the following questions.
a. Which country has the comparative advantage in aircraft production? In produc-
tion of trousers, slacks, and jeans?
b. Can you determine which country has the absolute advantage in aircraft produc-
tion? In production of trousers, slacks, and jeans?
S4o. lutio
a. Since countries gain from specializing in production of the goods and services in
which they have a comparative advantage, the United States must have the com-
parative advantage in aircraft production, and China must have the comparative
advantage in production of trousers, slacks, and jeans.
b. Since trade has nothing to do with absolute advantage, we cannot determine from
these data which country has an absolute advantage in either of these goods.
5. Peter Pundit, an economics reporter, states that the European Union (EU) is increas-
ing its productivity very rapidly in all industries. He claims that this productivity
advance is so rapid that output from the EU in these industries will soon exceed that
of the United States and, as a result, the United States will no longer benefit from
trade with the EU.
a. Do you think Peter Pundit is correct or not? If not, what do you think is the
source of his mistake?
b. If the EU and the United States continue to trade, what do you think will charac-
terize the goods that the EU exports to the United States and the goods that the
United States exports to the EU?
S5o. lutio
a. Peter Pundit is not correct. He confuses absolute and comparative advantage. Even
if the EU had an absolute advantage over the United States in every product it pro-
duced, the United States would still have a comparative advantage in some prod-
ucts. And the United States should continue to produce those products: trade will
make both the EU and the United States better off.
b. You should expect to see the EU export those goods in which it has the compara-
tive advantage and the United States export those goods in which it has the com-
parative advantage.
6. You are in charge of allocating residents to your dormitory’s baseball and basketball
teams. You are down to the last four people, two of whom must be allocated to base-
ball and two to basketball. The accompanying table gives each person’s batting aver-
age and free-throw average.
a. Explain how you would use the concept of comparative advantage to allocate the
players. Begin by establishing each player’s opportunity cost of free throws in
terms of batting average.
b. Why is it likely that the other basketball players will be unhappy about this
arrangement but the other baseball players will be satisfied? Nonetheless, why
would an economist say that this is an efficient way to allocate players for your
dormitory’s sports teams?
S6o. lutio
a. Let’s begin by establishing the opportunity cost of free throws for each player. If
you allocate Kelley to the basketball team, the team gains a player with a 60% free-
throw average and the baseball team loses a player with a 70% batting aver- age.
That is, the opportunity cost of allocating Kelley to the basketball team is 7⁄6.
Similarly, Jackie’s opportunity cost of playing basketball is 1; Curt’s opportunity cost
of playing basketball is 1⁄ 3, and Gerry’s opportunity cost of playing basketball is 8⁄ 7.
Jackie and Curt have the lowest opportunity costs of playing basketball; that is,
they have the comparative advantage in basketball. Therefore, they should be
allocated to the basketball team. Kelley and Gerry have the comparative advantage
in baseball and should therefore play on the baseball team.
b. It is likely that the basketball team will be unhappy with this arrangement. Both
Jackie and Curt have an absolute disadvantage at playing basketball, compared to
the other two players. (They also have an absolute disadvantage at playing base-
ball, but they are comparatively less bad at basketball than at baseball.) The base-
ball team is likely to be happy about this allocation because both Kelley and Gerry
have an absolute advantage at playing baseball. However, if you are concerned
with the total number of wins for the dormitory (as an economist would be con-
cerned about efficiency), this allocation is the best one: it maximizes the overall
chances of the dormitory winning at any sport.
7. The inhabitants of the fictional economy of Atlantis use money in the form of cowry
shells. Draw a circular-flow diagram showing households and firms. Firms produce
potatoes and fish, and households buy potatoes and fish. Households also provide
the land and labor to firms. Identify where in the flows of cowry shells or physical
things (goods and services, or resources) each of the following impacts would occur.
Describe how this impact spreads around the circle.
a. A devastating hurricane floods many of the potato fields.
b. A very productive fishing season yields a very large number of fish caught.
c. The inhabitants of Atlantis discover Shakira and spend several days a month at
dancing festivals.
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