True or false. Your answer to each question should not extend beyond 3 to 5 sentences...
True or false. Your answer to each question should not extend beyond 3 to 5 sentences (i.e., short succinct answers are preferred).
a. A firm’s marginal rate of technical substitution captures the firm’s willingness to trade capital for labour, but not the degree to which capital and labour are substitutes in supply. True or false? Explain your position.
b. A consumer in an exchange economy will always be better off at an allocation which is Pareto efficient than at an allocation which is not Pareto efficient. True or false? Explain your position.
Homework Answers
A. False
It is because MRTS also tells us by how much one unit of a factor has to be reduced so that the productivity remains the same by increasing another factor of production.
B. True
In pareto optimality if a person changes his position he will be worse off. Thus if a person is at a pareto optimal position he will be better off.
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