曼昆经济学原理答案英文版

第一章

SOLUTIONS TO TEXT PROBLEMS:

Quick Quizzes

1.The four principles of economic decisionmaking are: (1) people face tradeoffs; (2) the cost of something is what you give up to get it; (3) rational people think at the margin; and (4) people respond to incentives. People face tradeoffs because to get one thing that they like, they usually have to give up another thing that they like. The cost of something is what you give up to get it, not just in terms of monetary costs but all opportunity costs. Rational people think at the margin by taking an action if and only if the marginal benefits exceed the marginal costs. People respond to incentives because as they compare benefits to costs, a change in incentives may cause their behavior to change.

2.The three principles concerning economic interactions are: (1) trade can make everyone better off; (2) markets are usually a good way to organize economic activity; and (3) governments can sometimes improve market outcomes. Trade can make everyone better off because it allows countries to specialize in what they do best and to enjoy a wider variety of goods and services. Markets are usually a good way to organize economic activity because the invisible hand leads markets to desirable outcomes. Governments can sometimes improve market outcomes because sometimes markets fail to allocate resources efficiently because of an externality or market power.

3.The three principles that describe how the economy as a whole works are: (1) a country’s standard of living depends on its ability to produce goods and services; (2) prices rise when the government prints too much money; and (3) society faces a short-run tradeoff between inflation and unemployment. A country’s standard of living depends on its ability to produce goods and services, which in turn depends on its productivity, which is a function of the education of workers and the access workers have to the necessary tools and technology. Prices rise when the government prints too much money because more money in circulation reduces the value of money, causing inflation. Society faces a short-run tradeoff between inflation and unemployment that is only temporary and policymakers have some ability to exploit this relationship using various policy instruments.

Questions for Review

1.Examples of tradeoffs include time tradeoffs (such as studying one subject over another, or studying at all compared to engaging in social activities) and spending tradeoffs (such as whether to use your last ten dollars on pizza or on a study guide for that tough economics course).

2.The opportunity cost of seeing a movie includes the monetary cost of admission plus the time cost of going to the theater and attending the show. The time cost depends on what else you might do with that time; if it's staying home and watching TV, the time cost may be small, but if it's working an extra three hours at your job, the time cost is the money you could have earned.

3.The marginal benefit of a glass of water depends on your circumstances. If you've just run a marathon, or you've been walking in the desert sun for three hours, the marginal benefit is very high. But if you've been drinking a lot of liquids recently, the marginal benefit is quite low. The point is that even the necessities of life, like water, don't always have large marginal benefits.

4.Policymakers need to think about incentives so they can understand how people will respond to the policies they put in place. The text's example of seat belts shows that policy actions can have quite unintended consequences. If incentives matter a lot, they may lead to a very different type of policy; for example, some economists have suggested putting knives in steering columns so that people will drive much more carefully! While this suggestion is silly, it highlights the importance of incentives.

5.Trade among countries isn't a game with some losers and some winners because trade can make everyone better off. By allowing specialization, trade between people and trade between countries can improve everyone's welfare.

6.The "invisible hand" of the marketplace represents the idea that even though individuals and firms are all acting in their own self-interest, prices and the marketplace guide them to do what is good for society as a whole.

7.The two main causes of market failure are externalities and market power. An externality is the impact of one person’s actions on the well-being of a bystander, such as from pollution or the creation of knowledge. Market power refers to the ability of a single person (or small group of people) to unduly influence market prices, such as in a town with only one well or only one cable television company. In addition, a market economy also leads to an unequal distribution of income.

8.Productivity is important because a country's standard of living depends on its ability to produce goods and services. The greater a country's productivity (the amount of goods and services produced from each hour of a worker's time), the greater will be its standard of living.

9.Inflation is an increase in the overall level of prices in the economy. Inflation is caused by increases in the quantity of a nation's money.

10.Inflation and unemployment are negatively related in the short run. Reducing inflation entails costs to society in the form of higher unemployment in the short run.

Problems and Applications

1. a. A family deciding whether to buy a new car faces a tradeoff between the cost of the car and other things they might want to buy. For example, buying the car might mean they must give up going on vacation for the next two years. So the real cost of the car is the family's opportunity cost in terms of what they must give up.

b.For a member of Congress deciding whether to increase spending on national parks, the tradeoff is between parks and other spending items or tax cuts. If more money goes into the park system, that may mean less spending on national defense or on the police force. Or, instead of spending more money on the park system, taxes could be reduced.

c.When a company president decides whether to open a new factory, the decision is based on whether the new factory will increase the firm's profits compared to other alternatives. For example, the company could upgrade existing equipment or expand existing factories. The bottom line is: Which method of expanding production will increase profit the most?

d.In deciding how much to prepare for class, a professor faces a tradeoff between the value of improving the quality of the lecture compared to other things she could do with her time, such as working on additional research.

2.When the benefits of something are psychological, such as going on a vacation, it isn't easy to compare benefits to costs to determine if it's worth doing. But there are two ways to think about the benefits. One is to compare the vacation with what you would do in its place. If you didn't go on vacation, would you buy something like a new set of golf clubs? Then you can decide if you'd rather have the new clubs or the vacation. A second way is to think about how much work you had to do to earn the money to pay for the vacation; then you can decide if the psychological benefits of the vacation were worth the psychological cost of working.

3.If you are thinking of going skiing instead of working at your part-time job, the cost of skiing includes its monetary and time costs, which includes the opportunity cost of the wages you are giving up by not working. If the choice is between skiing and going to the library to study, then the cost of skiing is its monetary and time costs including the cost to you of getting a lower grade in your course.

4.If you spend $100 now instead of saving it for a year and earning 5 percent interest, you are giving up the opportunity to spend $105 a year from now. The idea that money has a time value is the basis for the field of finance, the subfield of economics that has to do with prices of financial instruments like stocks and bonds.

5.The fact that you've already sunk $5 million isn't relevant to your decision anymore, since that money is gone. What matters now is the chance to earn profits at the margin. If you spend another $1 million and can generate sales of $3 million, you'll earn $2 million in marginal profit, so you should do so. You are right to think that the project has lost a total of $3 million ($6 million in costs and only $3 million in revenue) and you shouldn't have started it. That's true, but if you don't spend the additional $1 million, you won't have any sales and your losses will be $5 million. So what matters is not the total profit, but the profit you can earn at the margin. In fact, you'd pay up to $3 million to complete development; any more than that, and you won't be increasing profit at the margin.

6.Harry suggests looking at whether productivity would rise or fall. Productivity is certainly important, since the more productive workers are, the lower the cost per gallon of potion. Ron wants to look at average cost. But both Harry and Ron are missing the other side of the equation?revenue. A firm wants to maximize its profits, so it needs to examine both costs and revenues. Thus, Hermione is

right?it’s best to examine whether the extra revenue would exceed the extra costs. Hermione is the only one who is thinking at the margin.

7. a.The provision of Social Security benefits lowers an individual’s incentive to save for retirement. The benefits provide some level of income to the individual when he or she retires. This means that the individual is not entirely dependent on savings to support consumption through the years in retirement.

b.Since a person gets fewer after-tax Social Security benefits the greater is his or her earnings, there is an incentive not to work (or not work as much) after age 65. The more you work, the lower your after-tax Social Security benefits will be. Thus the taxation of Social Security benefits discourages work effort after age 65.

8. a.When welfare recipients who are able to work have their benefits cut off after two years, they have greater incentive to find jobs than if their benefits were to last forever.

b.The loss of benefits means that someone who can't find a job will get no income at all, so the distribution of income will become less equal. But the economy will be more efficient, since welfare recipients have a greater incentive to find jobs. Thus the change in the law is one that increases

efficiency but reduces equity.

9.By specializing in each task, you and your roommate can finish the chores more quickly. If you divided each task equally, it would take you more time to cook than it would take your roommate, and it would take him more time to clean than it would take you. By specializing, you reduce the total time spent on chores.

Similarly, countries can specialize and trade, making both better off. For example, suppose it takes Spanish workers less time to make clothes than French workers, and French workers can make wine more efficiently than Spanish workers. Then Spain and France can both benefit if Spanish workers produce all the clothes and French workers produce all the wine, and they exchange some wine for some clothes.

10. a.Being a central planner is tough! To produce the right number of CDs by the right artists and deliver them to the right people requires an enormous amount of information. You need to know about production techniques and costs in the CD industry. You need to know each person's musical tastes and which artists they want to hear. If you make the wrong decisions, you'll be producing too many CDs by artists that people don't want to hear, and not enough by others.

b.Your decisions about how many CDs to produce carry over to other decisions. You have to make the right number of CD players for people to use. If you make too many CDs and not enough cassette tapes, people with cassette players will be stuck with CDs they can't play. The probability of making mistakes is very high. You will also be faced with tough choices about the music industry compared to other parts of the economy. If you produce more sports equipment, you'll have fewer resources for making CDs. So all decisions about the economy influence your decisions about CD production.

11. a. Efficiency: The market failure comes from the monopoly by the cable TV firm.

b.Equity

c.Efficiency: An externality arises because secondhand smoke harms nonsmokers.

d.Efficiency: The market failure occurs because of Standard Oil's monopoly power.

e.Equity

f.Efficiency: There is an externality because of accidents caused by drunk drivers.

12. a.If everyone were guaranteed the best health care possible, much more of our nation's output would be devoted to medical care than is now the case. Would that be efficient? If you think that currently doctors form a monopoly and restrict health care to keep their incomes high, you might think efficiency would increase by providing more health care. But more likely, if the government mandated increased spending on health care, the economy would be less efficient because it would give people more health care than they would choose to pay for. From the point of view of equity, if poor people are less likely to have adequate health care, providing more health care would represent an improvement. Each person would have a more even slice of the economic pie, though the pie would consist of more health care and less of other goods.

b.When workers are laid off, equity considerations argue for the unemployment benefits system to provide them with some income until they can find new jobs. After all, no one plans to be laid off, so unemployment benefits are a form of insurance. But there’s an efficiency problem?why work if you can get income for doing nothing? The economy isn’t operating efficiently if people remain unemployed for a long time, and unemployment benefits encourage unemployment. Thus, there’s a tradeoff between equity and efficiency. The more generous are unemployment benefits, the less income is lost by an unemployed person, but the more that person is encouraged to remain unemployed. So greater equity reduces efficiency.

13.Since average income in the United States has roughly doubled every 35 years, we are likely to have a better standard of living than our parents, and a much better standard of living than our grandparents. This is mainly the result of increased productivity, so that an hour of work produces more goods and services than it used to. Thus incomes have continuously risen over time, as has the standard of living.

14.If Americans save more and it leads to more spending on factories, there will be an increase in production and productivity, since the same number of workers will have more equipment to work with. The benefits from higher productivity will go to both the workers, who will get paid more since they're producing more, and the factory owners, who will get a return on their investments. There is no such thing as a free lunch, however, because when people save more, they are giving up spending. They get higher incomes at the cost of buying fewer goods.

15. a.If people have more money, they are probably going to spend more on goods and services.

b.If prices are sticky, and people spend more on goods and services, then output may increase, as producers increase output to meet the higher demand rather than raising prices.

c.If prices can adjust, then the higher spending of consumers will be matched with increased prices and output won't rise.

16.To make an intelligent decision about whether to reduce inflation, a policymaker would need to know what causes inflation and unemployment, as well as what determines the tradeoff between them. Any attempt to reduce inflation will likely lead to higher unemployment in the short run. A policymaker thus

faces a tradeoff between the benefits of lower inflation compared to the cost of higher unemployment.

第二章

SOLUTIONS TO TEXT PROBLEMS:

Quick Quizzes

1.Economics is like a science because economists devise theories, collect data, and analyze the data in an attempt to verify or refute their theories. In other words, economics is based on the scientific method.

Figure 1 shows the production possibilities frontier for a society that produces food and clothing. Point A is an efficient point (on the frontier), point B is an inefficient point (inside the frontier), and point C is an infeasible point (outside the frontier).

Figure 1

The effects of a drought are shown in Figure 2. The drought reduces the amount of food that can be produced, shifting the production possibilities frontier inward.

Figure 2

Microeconomics is the study of how households and firms make decisions and how they interact in markets. Macroeconomics is the study of economy-wide phenomena, including inflation, unemployment, and economic growth.

2.An example of a positive statement is “higher taxes discourage work effort” (many other answers are possible). That’s a positive statement because it describes the effects of higher taxes, describing the world as it is. An example of a normative statement is “the government should reduce tax rates.” That is a normative statement because it’s a claim about how the world should be.

Parts of the government that regularly rely on advice from economists are the Treasury Department in designing tax policy, the Department of Labor in analyzing data on the employment situation, the Justice Department in enforcing the nation’s antitrust laws, the Congressional Budget Office in evaluating policy proposals, and the Federal Reserve in analyzing economic developments (many other answers are possible).

3.Economic advisers to the president might disagree about a question of policy because of differing scientific judgments or differences in values.

Questions for Review

1.Economics is like a science because economists use the scientific method. They devise theories, collect data, and then analyze these data in an attempt to verify or refute their theories about how the world works. Economists use theory and observation like other scientists, but they are limited in their ability to run controlled experiments. Instead, they must rely on natural experiments.

2.Economists make assumptions to simplify problems without substantially affecting the answer. Assumptions can make the world easier to understand.

3.An economic model cannot describe reality exactly because it would be too complicated to understand. A model is a simplification that allows the economist to see what is truly important.

4.Figure 3 shows a production possibilities frontier between milk and cookies (PPF1). If a disease kills half of the economy's cow population, less milk production is possible, so the PPF shifts inward (PPF2). Note that if the economy produces all cookies, so it doesn't need any cows, then production is unaffected. But if the economy produces any milk at all, then there will be less production possible after the disease hits.

Figure 3

5.The idea of efficiency is that an outcome is efficient if the economy is getting all it can from the scarce resources it has available. In terms of the production possibilities frontier, an efficient point is a point on the frontier, such as point A in Figure 4. A point inside the frontier, such as point B, is inefficient since more of one good could be produced without reducing the production of another good.

Figure 4

6.The two subfields in economics are microeconomics and macroeconomics. Microeconomics is the study of how households and firms make decisions and how they interact in specific markets. Macroeconomics is the study of economy-wide phenomena.

7.Positive statements are descriptive and make a claim about how the world is, while normative statements are prescriptive and make a claim about how the world ought to be. Here is an example. Positive: A rapid growth rate of money is the cause of inflation. Normative: The government should keep the growth rate of money low.

8.The Council of Economic Advisers is a group of economists who consult with the president of the United States about economic matters. The Council consists of three members and a staff of several dozen economists. It writes the annual Economic Report of the President.

9.Economists sometimes offer conflicting advice to policymakers for two reasons:

(1) economists may disagree about the validity of alternative positive theories about how the world works; and (2) economists may have different values and, therefore, different normative views about what public policy should try to accomplish.

Problems and Applications

1.Many answers are possible.

2. a.Steel is a fairly uniform commodity, though some firms produce steel of inferior quality.

b.Novels are each unique, so they are quite distinguishable.

c.Wheat produced by one farmer is completely indistinguishable from wheat produced by another.

d.Fast food is more distinguishable than steel or wheat, but certainly not as much as novels.

3.See Figure 5; the four transactions are shown.

Figure 5

4. a.Figure 6 shows a production possibilities frontier between guns and butter. It is bowed out because when most of the economy’s resources are being used to produce butter, the frontier is steep and when most of the economy’s resources are being used to produce guns, the frontier is very flat. When the economy is producing a lot of guns, workers and machines best suited to making butter are being used to make guns, so each unit of guns given up yields a large increase in the production of butter. Thus, the production possibilities frontier is flat. When the economy is producing a lot of butter, workers and machines best suited to making guns are being used to make butter, so each unit of guns given up yields a small increase in the production of butter. Thus, the production possibilities frontier is steep.

b.Point A is impossible for the economy to achieve; it is outside the production possibilities frontier. Point B is feasible but inefficient because it’s inside the production possibilities frontier.

Figure 6

c.The Hawks might choose a point like H, with many guns and not much butter. The Doves

might choose a point like D, with a lot of butter and few guns.

d.If both Hawks and Doves reduced their desired quantity of guns by the same amount, the Hawks would get a bigger peace dividend because the production possibilities frontier is much steeper at point H than at point D. As a result, the reduction of a given number of guns, starting at point H, leads to a much larger increase in the quantity of butter produced than when starting at point D.

5.See Figure 7. The shape and position of the frontier depend on how costly it is to maintain a clean environment?the productivity of the environmental industry. Gains in environmental productivity, such as the development of a no-emission auto engine, lead to shifts of the production-possibilities frontier, like the shift from PPF1 to PPF2 shown in the figure.

Figure 7

6. a. A family's decision about how much income to save is microeconomics.

b.The effect of government regulations on auto emissions is microeconomics.

c.The impact of higher saving on economic growth is macroeconomics.

d. A firm's decision about how many workers to hire is microeconomics.

e.The relationship between the inflation rate and changes in the quantity of money is macroeconomics.

7. a.The statement that society faces a short-run tradeoff between inflation and unemployment is a positive statement. It deals with how the economy is, not how it should be. Since economists have examined data and found that there is a short-run negative relationship between inflation and unemployment, the statement is a fact, thus it is a positive statement.

b.The statement that a reduction in the rate of growth of money will reduce the rate of inflation is a positive statement. Economists have found that money growth and inflation are very closely related. The statement thus tells how the world is, and so it is a positive statement.

c.The statement that the Federal Reserve should reduce the rate of growth of money is a normative statement. It states an opinion about something that should be done, not how the world is.

d.The statement that society ought to require welfare recipients to look for jobs is a normative statement. It doesn't state a fact about how the world is. Instead, it is a statement of how the world should be and is thus a normative statement.

e.The statement that lower tax rates encourage more work and more saving is a positive statement. Economists have studied the relationship between tax rates and work, as well as the relationship between tax rates and saving. They have found a negative relationship in both cases. So the statement reflects how the world is, and is thus a positive statement.

8.Two of the statements in Table 2 are clearly normative. They are: "5. If the federal budget is to be balanced, it should be done over the business cycle rather than yearly" and "9. The government should restructure the welfare system along the lines of a 'negative income tax.'" Both are suggestions of changes that should be made, rather than statements of fact, so they are clearly normative statements. The other statements in the table are positive. All the statements concern how the world is, not how the world should be. Note that in all cases, even though they are statements of fact, fewer than 100 percent of economists agree with them. You could say that positive statements are statements of fact about how the world is, but not everyone agrees about what the facts are.

9.As the president, you'd be interested in both the positive and normative views of economists, but you'd probably be most interested in their positive views. Economists are on your staff to provide their expertise about how the economy works. They know many facts about the economy and the interaction of different sectors. So you would be most likely to call on them about questions of fact?positive analysis. Since you are the president, you are the one who has to make the normative statements as to what should be done, with an eye to the political consequences. The normative statements made by economists represent their own views, not necessarily your views or the electorate’s views.

10.There are many possible answers.

11.As of this writing, the chairman of the Federal Reserve is Alan Greenspan, the chair of the Council of Economic Advisers is R. Glen Hubbard, and the secretary of the treasury is Paul H. O’Neill. 12.As time goes on, you might expect economists to disagree less about public policy because they will have opportunities to observe different policies that are put into place. As new policies are tried, their results will become known, and they can be evaluated better. It's likely that the disagreement about them will be reduced after they've been tried in practice. For example, many

economists thought that wage and price controls would be a good idea for keeping inflation under control, while others thought it was a bad idea. But when the controls were tried in the early 1970s, the results were disastrous. The controls interfered with the invisible hand of the marketplace and shortages developed in many markets. As a result, most economists are now convinced that wage and price controls are a bad idea for controlling inflation.

But it is unlikely that the differences between economists will ever be completely eliminated. Economists differ on too many aspects of how the world works. Plus, even as some policies get tried out and are either accepted or rejected, creative economists keep coming up with new ideas.

第三章

SOLUTIONS TO TEXT PROBLEMS:

Quick Quizzes

1.Figure 1 shows a production possibilities frontier for Robinson Crusoe between gathering coconuts and catching fish. If Crusoe lives by himself, this frontier limits his consumption of coconuts and fish, but if he can trade with natives on the island he will be able to consume at a point outside his production possibilities frontier.

Figure 1

2.Crusoe’s opportunity cost of catching one fish is 10 coconuts, since he can gather 10 coconuts in the same amount of time it takes to catch one fish. Friday’s opportunity cost of catching one fish is 15 coconuts, since he can gather 30 coconuts in the same amount of time it takes to catch two fish. Friday has an absolute advantage in catching fish, since he can catch two per hour, while Crusoe can only catch one per hour. But Crusoe has a comparative advantage in catching fish, since his opportunity cost of catching a fish is less than Friday’s.

3.If the world’s fastest typist happens to be trained in brain surgery, he should hire a secretary. He has an absolute advantage in typing, but a comparative advantage in brain surgery, since his opportunity cost in brain surgery is low compared to the opportunity cost for other people.

Questions for Review

1.Absolute advantage reflects a comparison of the productivity of one person, firm, or nation to that of another, while comparative advantage is based on the relative opportunity costs of the persons, firms, or nations. While a person, firm, or nation may have an absolute advantage in producing every good, they can't have a comparative advantage in every good.

2.Many examples are possible. Suppose, for example, that Roger can prepare a fine meal of hot dogs and macaroni in just ten minutes, while it takes Anita twenty minutes. And Roger can do all the wash in three hours, while it takes Anita four hours. Roger has an absolute advantage in both cooking and doing the wash, but Anita has a comparative advantage in doing the wash (the wash takes the same amount of time as 12 meals, while it takes Roger 18 meals' worth of time).

https://www.sodocs.net/doc/f86149205.html,parative advantage is more important for trade than absolute advantage. In the example in problem 2, Anita and Roger will complete their chores more quickly if Anita does at least some of the wash and Roger cooks the fine meals for both, because Anita has a comparative advantage in doing the wash, while Roger has a comparative advantage in cooking.

4. A nation will export goods for which it has a comparative advantage because it has a smaller opportunity cost of producing those goods. As a result, citizens of all nations are able to consume quantities of goods that are outside their production possibilities frontiers.

5.Economists oppose policies that restrict trade among nations because trade allows all countries to achieve greater prosperity by allowing them to receive the gains from comparative advantage. Restrictions on trade hurt all countries.

Problems and Applications

1.In the text example of the farmer and the rancher, the farmer's opportunity cost of producing one

ounce of meat is 4 ounces of potatoes because for every 8 hours of work, he can produce 8 ounces of meat or 32 ounces of potatoes. With limited time at his disposal, producing an ounce of meat means he gives up the opportunity to produce 4 ounces of potatoes. Similarly, the rancher's opportunity cost of producing one ounce of meat is 2 ounces of potatoes because for every 8 hours of work, she can produce 24 ounces of meat or 48 ounces of potatoes. With limited time at her disposal, producing an ounce of meat means she gives up the opportunity to produce 2 ounces of potatoes.

2. a.See Figure 2. If Maria spends all five hours studying economics, she can read 100 pages, so that is the vertical intercept of the production possibilities frontier. If she spends all five hours studying sociology, she can read 250 pages, so that is the horizontal intercept. The time costs are constant, so the production possibilities frontier is a straight line.

Figure 2

b.It takes Maria two hours to read 100 pages of sociology. In that time, she could read 40 pages of economics. So the opportunity cost of 100 pages of sociology is 40 pages of economics.

3. a.

Workers needed to make:

One Car One Ton of Grain

U.S.1/41/10

Japan1/41/5

b.See Figure 3. With 100 million workers and four cars per worker, if either economy were devoted completely to cars, it could make 400 million cars. Since a U.S. worker can produce 10 tons of grain, if the United States produced only grain it would produce 1,000 million tons. Since a Japanese worker can produce 5 tons of grain, if Japan produced only grain it would produce 500 million tons. These are the intercepts of the production possibilities frontiers shown in the figure. Note that since the tradeoff between cars and grain is constant, the production possibilities frontier is a straight line.

Figure 3

c.Since a U.S. worker produces either 4 cars or 10 tons of grain, the opportunity cost of 1 car is 2? tons of grain, which is 10 divided by 4. Since a Japanese worker produces either 4 cars or 5 tons of grain, the opportunity cost of 1 car is

1 1/4 tons of grain, which is 5 divided by 4. Similarly, the U.S. opportunity cost of 1 ton of grain is 2/5 car (4 divided by 10) and the Japanese opportunity cost of 1 ton of grain is 4/5 car (4 divided by 5). This gives the following table:

Opportunity Cost of:

1 Car (in terms of tons of grain given up) 1 Ton of Grain (in terms of cars given up)

U.S. 2 1/22/5

Japan 1 1/44/5

d.Neither country has an absolute advantage in producing cars, since they're equally productive (the same output per worker); the United States has an absolute advantage in producing grain, since it is more productive (greater output per worker).

e.Japan has a comparative advantage in producing cars, since it has a lower opportunity cost in terms of grain given up. The United States has a comparative advantage in producing grain, since it has a lower opportunity cost in terms of cars given up.

f.With half the workers in each country producing each of the goods, the United States would produce 200 million cars (that is 50 million workers times 4 cars each) and 500 million tons of grain (50 million workers times 10 tons each). Japan would produce 200 million cars (50 million workers times 4 cars each) and 250 million tons of grain (50 million workers times 5 tons each).

g.From any situation with no trade, in which each country is producing some cars and some grain, suppose the United States changed 1 worker from producing cars to producing grain. That worker would produce 4 fewer cars and 10 additional tons of grain. Then suppose the United States offers to trade 7 tons of grain to Japan for 4 cars. The United States will do this because it values 4 cars at 10 tons of grain, so it will be better off if the trade goes through. Suppose Japan changes 1 worker from producing grain to producing cars. That worker would produce 4 more cars and 5 fewer tons of grain. Japan will take the trade because it values 4 cars at 5 tons of grain, so it will be better off. With the trade and the change of 1 worker in both the United States and Japan, each country gets the same amount of cars as before and both get additional tons of grain (3 for the United States and 2 for Japan). Thus by trading and changing their production, both countries are better off.

4. a.Pat's opportunity cost of making a pizza is 1/2 gallon of root beer, since she could brew 1/2 gallon in the time (2 hours) it takes her to make a pizza. Pat has an absolute advantage in making

pizza since she can make one in two hours, while it takes Kris four hours. Kris' opportunity cost of making a pizza is 2/3 gallons of root beer, since she could brew 2/3 of a gallon in the time (4 hours) it takes her to make a pizza. Since Pat's opportunity cost of making pizza is less than Kris's, Pat has a comparative advantage in making pizza.

b.Since Pat has a comparative advantage in making pizza, she will make pizza and exchange it for root beer that Kris makes.

c.The highest price of pizza in terms of root beer that will make both roommates better off is 2/3 of a gallon of root beer. If the price were higher than that, then Kris would prefer making her own pizza (at an opportunity cost of 2/3 of a gallon of root beer) rather than trading for pizza that Pat makes. The lowest price of pizza in terms of root beer that will make both roommates better off is 1/2 gallon of root beer. If the price were lower than that, then Pat would prefer making her own root beer (she can make 1/2 gallon of root beer instead of making a pizza) rather than trading for root beer that Kris makes.

5. a.Since a Canadian worker can make either two cars a year or 30 bushels of wheat, the opportunity cost of a car is 15 bushels of wheat. Similarly, the opportunity cost of a bushel of wheat is 1/15 of a car. The opportunity costs are the reciprocals of each other.

b.See Figure 4. If all 10 million workers produce two cars each, they produce a total of 20 million cars, which is the vertical intercept of the production possibilities frontier. If all 10 million workers produce 30 bushels of wheat each, they produce a total of 300 million bushels, which is the horizontal intercept of the production possibilities frontier. Since the tradeoff between cars and wheat is always the same, the production possibilities frontier is a straight line.

If Canada chooses to consume 10 million cars, it will need 5 million workers devoted to car production. That leaves 5 million workers to produce wheat, who will produce a total of 150 million bushels (5 million workers times 30 bushels per worker). This is shown as point A on Figure 4.

c.If the United States buys 10 million cars from Canada and Canada continues to consume 10 million cars, then Canada will need to produce a total of 20 million cars. So Canada will be producing at the vertical intercept of the production possibilities frontier. But if Canada gets 20 bushels of wheat per car, it will be able to consume 200 million bushels of wheat, along with the 10 million cars. This is shown as point B in the figure. Canada should accept the deal because it gets the same number of cars and 50 million more bushes of wheat.

Figure 4

6.Though the professor could do both writing and data collection faster than the student (that is, he has an absolute advantage in both), his time is limited. If the professor's comparative advantage is in writing, it makes sense for him to pay a student to collect the data, since that is the student's comparative advantage.

7. a.English workers have an absolute advantage over Scottish workers in producing scones, since English workers produce more scones per hour (50 vs. 40). Scottish workers have an absolute advantage over English workers in producing sweaters, since Scottish workers produce more sweaters per hour (2 vs. 1). Comparative advantage runs the same way. English workers, who have an opportunity cost of 1/50 sweater per scone (1 sweater per hour divided by 50 scones per hour), have a comparative advantage in scone production over Scottish workers, who have an opportunity cost of 1/20 sweater per scone (2 sweaters per hour divided by 40 scones per hour). Scottish workers, who have an opportunity cost of 20 scones per sweater (40 scones per hour divided by 2 sweaters per hour), have a comparative advantage in sweater production over English workers, who have an opportunity cost of 50 scones per sweater (50 scones per hour divided by 1 sweater per hour).

b.If England and Scotland decide to trade, Scotland will produce sweaters and trade them for scones produced in England. A trade with a price between 20 and 50 scones per sweater will benefit both countries, as they'll be getting the traded good at a lower price than their opportunity cost of producing the good in their own country.

c.Even if a Scottish worker produced just one sweater per hour, the countries would still gain from trade, because Scotland would still have a comparative advantage in producing sweaters. Its opportunity cost for sweaters would be higher than before (40 scones per sweater, instead of 20 scones per sweater before). But there are still gains from trade since England has a higher opportunity cost (50 scones per sweater).

8. a.With no trade, one pair of white socks trades for one pair of red socks in Boston, since productivity is the same for the two types of socks. The price in Chicago is 2 pairs of red socks per pair of white socks.

b.Boston has an absolute advantage in the production of both types of socks, since a worker in Boston produces more (3 pairs of socks per hour) than a worker in Chicago (2 pairs of red socks per hour or 1 pair of white socks per hour).

Chicago has a comparative advantage in producing red socks, since the opportunity cost of producing a pair of red socks in Chicago is 1/2 pair of white socks, while the opportunity cost of producing a pair of red socks in Boston is 1 pair of white socks. Boston has a comparative advantage in producing white socks, since the opportunity cost of producing a pair of white socks in Boston is 1 pair of red socks, while the opportunity cost of producing a pair of white socks in Chicago is 2 pairs of red socks.

c.If they trade socks, Boston will produce white socks for export, since it has the comparative advantage in white socks, while Chicago produces red socks for export, which is Chicago's comparative advantage.

d.Trade can occur at any price between 1 and 2 pairs of red socks per pair of white socks. At a price lower than 1 pair of red socks per pair of white socks, Boston will choose to produce its own red socks (at a cost of 1 pair of red socks per pair of white socks) instead of buying them from Chicago. At a price higher than 2 pairs of red socks per pair of white socks, Chicago will choose to produce its own white socks (at a cost of 2 pairs of red socks per pair of white socks) instead of buying them from Boston.

9. a.The cost of all goods is lower in Germany than in France in the sense that all goods can be produced with fewer worker hours.

b.The cost of any good for which France has a comparative advantage is lower in France than in Germany. Though Germany produces all goods with less labor, that labor may be more valuable in the production of some goods and services. So the cost of production, in terms of opportunity cost, will be lower in France for some goods.

c.Trade between Germany and France will benefit both countries. For each good in which it has a comparative advantage, each country should produce more goods than it consumes, trading the rest to the other country. Total consumption will be higher in both countries as a result.

10. a.True; two countries can achieve gains from trade even if one of the countries has an absolute advantage in the production of all goods. All that's necessary is that each country have a comparative advantage in some good.

b.False; it is not true that some people have a comparative advantage in everything they do. In fact, no one can have a comparative advantage in everything. Comparative advantage reflects the opportunity cost of one good or activity in terms of another. If you have a comparative advantage in one thing, you must have a comparative disadvantage in the other thing.

c.False; it is not true that if a trade is good for one person, it can't be good for the other one. Trades can and do benefit both sides?especially trades based on comparative advantage. If both sides didn't benefit, trades would never occur.

第四章

SOLUTIONS TO TEXT PROBLEMS:

Quick Quizzes

1. A market is a group of buyers (who determine demand) and a group of sellers (who determine supply) of a particular good or service. A competitive market is one in which there are many buyers and many sellers of an identical product so that each has a negligible impact on the market price.

2.Here’s an example of a demand schedule for pizza:

Price of Pizza Slice Number of Pizza Slices Demanded

$ 0.00 10

0.259

0.508

0.757

1.006

1.255

1.504

1.753

2.002

2.251

2.500

The demand curve is graphed in Figure 1.

Figure 1

Examples of things that would shift the demand curve include changes in income, prices of related goods like soda or hot dogs, tastes, expectations about future income or prices, and the number of buyers.

A change in the price of pizza would not shift this demand curve; it would only lead us to move from one point to another along the same demand curve.

3.Here is an example of a supply schedule for pizza:

Price of Pizza Slice Number of Pizza Slices Supplied

$ 0.00 0

0.25100

0.50200

0.75300

1.00400

1.25500

1.50600

1.75700

2.00800

2.25900

2.501000

The supply curve is graphed in Figure 2.

Figure 2

Examples of things that would shift the supply curve include changes in prices of inputs like tomato sauce and cheese, changes in technology like more efficient pizza ovens or automatic dough makers, changes in expectations about the future price of pizza, or a change in the number of sellers.

A change in the price of pizza would not shift this supply curve; it would only move from one point to another along the same supply curve.

4.If the price of tomatoes rises, the supply curve for pizza shifts to the left because of the increased price of an input into pizza production, but there is no effect on demand. The shift to the left of the supply curve causes the equilibrium price to rise and the equilibrium quantity to decline, as Figure 3 shows.

If the price of hamburgers falls, the demand curve for pizza shifts to the left because the lower price of hamburgers will lead consumers to buy more hamburgers and less pizza, but there is no effect on supply. The shift to the left of the demand curve causes the equilibrium price to fall and the equilibrium quantity to decline, as Figure 4 shows.

Figure 3

Figure 4

Questions for Review

1. A competitive market is a market in which there are many buyers and many sellers of an identical product so that each has a negligible impact on the market price. Other types of markets include monopoly, in which there is only one seller, oligopoly, in which there are a few sellers that do not always compete aggressively, and monopolistically competitive markets, in which there are many sellers, each offering a slightly different product.

2.The quantity of a good that buyers demand is determined by the price of the good, income, the prices of related goods, tastes, expectations, and the number of buyers.

3.The demand schedule is a table that shows the relationship between the price of a good and the quantity demanded. The demand curve is the downward-sloping line relating price and quantity demanded. The demand schedule and demand curve are related because the demand curve is simply a graph showing the points in the demand schedule.

The demand curve slopes downward because of the law of demand—other things equal, when the price of a good rises, the quantity demanded of the good falls. People buy less of a good when its price rises, both because they cannot afford to buy as much and because they switch to purchasing other goods.

4. A change in consumers' tastes leads to a shift of the demand curve. A change in price leads to a movement along the demand curve.

5.Since Popeye buys more spinach when his income falls, spinach is an inferior good for him. Since he buys more spinach, but the price of spinach is unchanged, his demand curve for spinach shifts out as a result of the decrease in his income.

6.The quantity of a good that sellers supply is determined by the price of the good, input prices, technology, expectations, and the number of sellers.

7. A supply schedule is a table showing the relationship between the price of a good and the quantity a producer is willing and able to supply. The supply curve is the upward-sloping line relating price and quantity supplied. The supply schedule and the supply curve are related because the supply curve is simply a graph showing the points in the supply schedule.

The supply curve slopes upward because when the price is high, suppliers' profits increase, so they supply more output to the market. The result is the law of supply—other things equal, when the price of a good rises, the quantity supplied of the good also rises.

8. A change in producers' technology leads to a shift in the supply curve. A change in price leads to a movement along the supply curve.

9.The equilibrium of a market is the point at which the quantity demanded is equal to quantity supplied. If the price is above the equilibrium price, sellers want to sell more than buyers want to buy, so there is a surplus. Sellers try to increase their sales by cutting prices. That continues until they reach the equilibrium price. If the price is below the equilibrium price, buyers want to buy more than sellers want to sell, so there is a shortage. Sellers can raise their price without losing customers. That continues until they reach the equilibrium price.

10.When the price of beer rises, the demand for pizza declines, because beer and pizza are complements and people want to buy less beer. When we say the demand for pizza declines, we mean that the demand curve for pizza shifts to the left as in Figure 5. The supply curve for pizza is not affected. With a shift to the left in the demand curve, the equilibrium price and quantity both decline, as the figure shows. Thus the quantity of pizza supplied and demanded both fall. In sum, supply is unchanged, demand is decreased, quantity supplied declines, quantity demanded declines, and the price falls.

Figure 5

11.Prices play a vital role in market economies because they bring markets into equilibrium. If the price is different from its equilibrium level, quantity supplied and quantity demanded are not equal. The resulting surplus or shortage leads suppliers to adjust the price until equilibrium is restored. Prices thus serve as signals that guide economic decisions and allocate scarce resources.

Problems and Applications

1. a.Cold weather damages the orange crop, reducing the supply of oranges. This can be seen in Figure 6 as a shift to the left in the supply curve for oranges. The new equilibrium price is higher than the old equilibrium price.

Figure 6

b.People often travel to the Caribbean from New England to escape cold weather, so demand for Caribbean hotel rooms is high in the winter. In the summer, fewer people travel to the Caribbean, since northern climes are more pleasant. The result, as shown in Figure 7, is a shift to the left in the demand curve. The equilibrium price of Caribbean hotel rooms is thus lower in the summer than in the

winter, as the figure shows.

Figure 7

c.When a war breaks out in the Middle East, many markets are affecte

d. Since much oil production takes place there, the war disrupts oil supplies, shifting the supply curve for gasoline to the left, as shown in Figure 8. The result is a rise in the equilibrium price of gasolin

e. With a higher price for gasoline, the cost of operating a gas-guzzling automobile, like a Cadillac, will increase. As a result, the demand for used Cadillacs will decline, as people in the market for cars will not find Cadillacs as attractive. In addition, some people who already own Cadillacs will try to sell them. The result is that the demand curve for used Cadillacs shifts to the left, while the supply curve shifts to the right, as shown in Figure 9. The result is a decline in the equilibrium price of used Cadillacs.

Figure 8Figure 9

2.The statement that "an increase in the demand for notebooks raises the quantity of notebooks demanded, but not the quantity supplied," in general, is false. As Figure 10 shows, the increase in demand for notebooks results in an increased quantity supplied. The only way the statement would be true is if the supply curve was a vertical line, as shown in Figure 11.

Figure 10

Figure 11

3. a.If people decide to have more children (a change in tastes), they will want larger vehicles for hauling their kids around, so the demand for minivans will increase. Supply won't be affected. The result is a rise in both price and quantity, as Figure 12 shows.

Figure 12

b.If a strike by steelworkers raises steel prices, the cost of producing a minivan rises (a rise in input prices), so the supply of minivans decreases. Demand won't be affected. The result is a rise in the price of minivans and a decline in the quantity, as Figure 13 shows.

Figure 13

c.The development of new automated machinery for the production of minivans is an improvement in technology. The reduction in firms' costs results in an increase in supply. Demand isn't affecte

d. The result is a decline in the price of minivans and an increase in the quantity, as Figure 14 shows.

Figure 14

d.The rise in the price of sport utility vehicles affects minivan demand because sport utility vehicles are substitutes for minivans (that is, there is a rise in the price of a related good). The result is an increase in demand for minivans. Supply is not affected. In equilibrium, the price and quantity of minivans both rise, as Figure 12 shows.

e.The reduction in peoples' wealth caused by a stock-market crash reduces their income, leading to a reduction in the demand for minivans, since minivans are likely a normal good. Supply isn’t affected. As a result, both price and quantity decline, as Figure 15 shows.

Figure 15

4.Technological advances that reduce the cost of producing computer chips represent a decline in an input price for producing a computer. The result is a shift to the right in the supply of computers, as shown in Figure 16. The equilibrium price falls and the equilibrium quantity rises, as the figure shows.

Figure 16

Since computer software is a complement to computers, the lower equilibrium price of computers increases the demand for software. As Figure 17 shows, the result is a rise in both the equilibrium price and quantity of software.

Figure 17

Since typewriters are substitutes for computers, the lower equilibrium price of computers reduces the demand for typewriters. As Figure 18 shows, the result is a decline in both the equilibrium price and quantity of typewriters.

Figure 18

5. a.When a hurricane in South Carolina damages the cotton crop, it raises input prices for producing sweatshirts. As a result, the supply of sweatshirts shifts to the left, as shown in Figure 19. The new equilibrium has a higher price and lower quantity of sweatshirts.

Figure 19

b. A decline in the price of leather jackets leads more people to buy leather jackets, reducing the demand for sweatshirts. The result, shown in Figure 20, is a decline in both the equilibrium price and quantity of sweatshirts.

Figure 20

c.The effects of colleges requiring students to engage in morning calisthenics in appropriate attire raises the demand for sweatshirts, as shown in Figure 21. The result is an increase in both the equilibrium price and quantity of sweatshirts.

Figure 21

d.The invention of new knitting machines increases the supply of sweatshirts. As Figure 22 shows, the result is a reduction in the equilibrium price and an increase in the equilibrium quantity of sweatshirts.

Figure 22

6. A temporarily high birth rate in the year 2005 leads to opposite effects on the price of babysitting services in the years 2010 and 2020. In the year 2010, there are more 5-year olds who need sitters, so the demand for babysitting services rises, as shown in Figure 23. The result is a higher price for babysitting services in 2010. However, in the year 2020, the increased number of 15-year olds shifts the supply of babysitting services to the right, as shown in Figure 24. The result is a decline in the price of babysitting services.

Figure 23Figure 24

7.Since ketchup is a complement for hot dogs, when the price of hot dogs rises, the quantity demanded of hot dogs falls, thus reducing the demand for ketchup, causing both price and quantity of ketchup to fall. Since the quantity of ketchup falls, the demand for tomatoes by ketchup producers falls, so both price and quantity of tomatoes fall. When the price of tomatoes falls, producers of tomato juice face lower input prices, so the supply curve for tomato juice shifts out, causing the price of tomato juice to fall and the quantity of tomato juice to rise. The fall in the price of tomato juice causes people to substitute tomato juice for orange juice, so the demand for orange juice declines, causing the price and quantity of orange juice to fall. Now you can see clearly why a rise in the price of hot dogs leads to a fall in price of orange juice!

Figure 25

8. a.Cigars and chewing tobacco are substitutes for cigarettes, since a higher price for cigarettes would increase the demand for cigars and chewing tobacco.

b.An increase in the tax on cigarettes leads to increased demand for cigars and chewing tobacco. The result, as shown in Figure 25 for cigars, is a rise in both the equilibrium price and quantity of cigars and chewing tobacco.

c.The results in part (b) showed that a tax on cigarettes leads people to substitute cigars and chewing tobacco for cigarettes when the tax on cigarettes rises. To reduce total tobacco usage, policymakers might also want to increase the tax on cigars and chewing tobacco, or pursue some type of public education program.

9.Quantity supplied equals quantity demanded at a price of $6 and quantity of 81 pizzas (Figure 26). If price were greater than $6, quantity supplied would exceed quantity demanded, so suppliers would reduce their price to gain sales. If price were less than $6, quantity demanded would exceed quantity supplied, so suppliers could raise their price without losing sales. In both cases, the price would continue to adjust until it reached $6, the only price at which there is neither a surplus nor a shortage.

Figure 26

10. a.If the price of flour falls, since flour is an ingredient in bagels, the supply curve for bagels would shift to the right. The result, shown in Figure 27, would be a fall in the price of bagels and a rise in the equilibrium quantity of bagels.

Figure 27

Since cream cheese is a complement to bagels, the fall in the equilibrium price of bagels increases the demand for cream cheese, as shown in Figure 28. The result is a rise in both the equilibrium price and quantity of cream cheese. So, a fall in the price of flour indeed raises both the equilibrium price of cream cheese and the equilibrium quantity of bagels.

Figure 28

What happens if the price of milk falls? Since milk is an ingredient in cream cheese, the fall in the price of milk leads to an increase in the supply of cream cheese. This leads to a decrease in the price of cream cheese (Figure 29), rather than a rise in the price of cream cheese. So a fall in the price of milk could not have been responsible for the pattern observed.

Figure 29

b.In part (a), we found that a fall in the price of flour led to a rise in the price of cream cheese and a rise in the equilibrium quantity of bagels. If the price of flour rose, the opposite would be true; it would lead to a fall in the price of cream cheese and a fall in the equilibrium quantity of bagels. Since the question says the equilibrium price of cream cheese has risen, it could not have been caused by a rise in the price of flour.

What happens if the price of milk rises? From part (a), we found that a fall in the price of milk caused a decline in the price of cream cheese, so a rise in the price of milk would cause a rise in the price of cream cheese. Since bagels and cream cheese are complements, the rise in the price of cream cheese would reduce the demand for bagels, as Figure 30 shows. The result is a decline in the equilibrium quantity of bagels. So a rise in the price of milk does cause both a rise in the price of cream cheese and a decline in the equilibrium quantity of bagels.

Figure 30

11. a.As Figure 31 shows, the supply curve is vertical. The constant quantity supplied makes sense because the basketball arena has a fixed number of seats no matter what the price.

Figure 31

b.Quantity supplied equals quantity demanded at a price of $8. The equilibrium quantity is 8,000 tickets.

c.

Price Quantity Demanded Quantity Supplied

$ 4 14,0008,000

8 11,0008,000

128,0008,000

165,0008,000

202,0008,000

The new equilibrium price will be $12, which equates quantity demanded to quantity supplied. The equilibrium quantity is 8,000 tickets.

12.The executives are confusing changes in demand with changes in quantity demanded. Figure 32 shows the demand curve prior to the marketing campaign (D1), and after the campaign (D2). The marketing campaign increased the demand for champagne, as shown, leading to a higher equilibrium price and quantity. The influence of the higher price on demand is already reflected in the outcome. It is impossible for the scenario outlined by the executives to occur.

Figure 32

13.Equilibrium occurs where quantity demanded is equal to quantity supplied. Thus:

Qd = Qs

1,600 – 300P = 1,400 + 700P

200 = 1,000P

P = $0.20

Qd = 1,600 – 300(0.20) = 1,600 – 60 = 1,540

Qs = 1,400 + 700(0.20) = 1,400 + 140 = 1,540.

The equilibrium price of a chocolate bar is $0.20 and the equilibrium quantity is 1,540 bars.

14. A perfectly competitive market is a market where there are many buyers and sellers of an identical product. No buyer or seller has the ability to influence the price of the product.

No, ice cream is probably not a very good example of a perfectly competitive market. Each competitor sells a product that may taste differently or may come in a different variety of flavors. The market for ice cream is better characterized as a monopolistically competitive market.

第五章

SOLUTIONS TO TEXT PROBLEMS:

Quick Quizzes

1.The price elasticity of demand is a measure of how much the quantity demanded of a good responds to a change in the price of that good, computed as the percentage change in quantity demanded divided by the percentage change in price.

The relationship between total revenue and the price elasticity of demand is: (1) when demand is inelastic (a price elasticity less than 1), a price increase raises total revenue, and a price decrease reduces total revenue; (2) when demand is elastic (a price elasticity greater than 1), a price increase reduces total revenue, and a price decrease raises total revenue; and (3) when demand is unit elastic (a price elasticity equal to 1), a change in price does not affect total revenue.

2.The price elasticity of supply is a measure of how much the quantity supplied of a good responds

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曼昆经济学原理英文版文案加习题答案8章

144 WHAT’S NEW IN THE S EVENTH EDITION: A new In the News box on ―The Tax Debate ‖ has been added. LEARNING OBJECTIVES: By the end of this chapter, students should understand: how taxes reduce consumer and producer surplus. the meaning and causes of the deadweight loss from a tax. why some taxes have larger deadweight losses than others. how tax revenue and deadweight loss vary with the size of a tax. CONTEXT AND PURPOSE: Chapter 8 is the second chapter in a three-chapter sequence dealing with welfare economics. In the previous section on supply and demand, Chapter 6 introduced taxes and demonstrated how a tax affects the price and quantity sold in a market. Chapter 6 also described the factors that determine how the burden of the tax is divided between the buyers and sellers in a market. Chapter 7 developed welfare economics —the study of how the allocation of resources affects economic well-being. Chapter 8 combines the lessons learned in Chapters 6 and 7 and addresses the effects of taxation on welfare. Chapter 9 will address the effects of trade restrictions on welfare. The purpose of Chapter 8 is to apply the lessons learned about welfare economics in Chapter 7 to the issue of taxation that was addressed in Chapter 6. Students will learn that the cost of a tax to buyers and sellers in a market exceeds the revenue collected by the government. Students will also learn about the factors that determine the degree by which the cost of a tax exceeds the revenue collected by the government. 8 APPLICATION: THE COSTS OF TAXATION

曼昆经济学原理试题Chapter 08a

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向不受限制。从机会成本的角度来考察生产过程时，厂商需要将生产要素投向收益最大的项目，而避免带来生产的浪费，达到资源配置的最优。机会成本的概念是以资源的稀缺性为前提提出的。从经济资源的稀缺性这一前提出发，当一个社会或一个企业用一定的经济资源生产一定数量的一种或者几种产品时，这些经济资源就不能同时被使用在其他的生产用途方面。这就是说，这个社会或这个企业所能获得的一定数量的产品收入，是以放弃用同样的经济资源来生产其他产品时所能获得的收入作为代价的。这也是机会成本产生的缘由。因此，社会生产某种产品的真正成本就是它不能生产另一些产品的代价。所以，机会成本的含义是：任何生产资源或生产要素一般都有多种不同的使用途径或机会，也就是说可以用于多种产品的生产。但是当一定量的某种资源用于生产甲种产品时，就不能同时用于生产乙种产品。因此生产甲种产品的真正成本就是不生产乙种产品的代价，或者是等于该种资源投放于乙种产品生产上可能获得的最大报酬。一种资源决定用于甲种产品，就牺牲了生产其他产品的机会；从事生产甲种产品的收入，是由于不从事或放弃其他产品生产的机会而产生的。 2.科斯定理:指一种产权理论。科斯本人并未将科斯定理写成文字，科斯定理的提出是由其好友斯蒂格勒首先根据科斯于20世纪60年代发表的《社会成本问题》这篇论文的内容概括出来的。其内容是：只要财产权是明确的，并且其交易成本为0或者很小，则无论在开始时财产权的配置是怎么样的，市场均衡的最终结果都是有效率的。科斯定理进一步扩大了“看不见的手”的作用。按照这个定理，只要那些假设条件成立，则外部影响就不可能导致资源配置不当。或者以另一角度来说，在所给条件下，市场力量足够强大，总能够使外部影响以最经济的办法来解决，从而仍然可以实现帕累托最优状态。西方学者认为，明确的财产权及其转让可以使得私人成本（或利益）与社会成本（或利益）趋于一致。以污染问题为例，科斯定理意味着，一旦所需条件均被满足，则污染者的私人边际成本曲线就会趋于上升，直到与边际社会成本曲线完全重合，从而污染者的利润最大化产量将下降至社会最优产量水平。 科斯定理解决外部影响问题在实际中并不—定真的有效。资产的财产权不一定总是能够明确地加以规定；已经明确的财产权不一定总是能够转让；分派产权会影响收入分配，而收入分配的变动可以造成社会不公平，引起社会动乱。在社会动乱的情况下，就谈不上解决外部效果的问题了。 3.搭便车：指不付成本或支付很低的成本而消费公共产品的行为。公共产品的特点决定了私人厂商不愿自动提供这种产品。这是因为在公用产品消费中存在“搭便车”问题，即每个人都想不付任何成本，或只支付很低的代价，来享受公共产品的服务。由于公共物品具有消费的非竞争性和受益的非排他性，人们可以在不付费的情况下享受公共物品所带来的效益。因此公共产品覆盖的消费者人数越多，搭便车问题就越严重，公共产品由私人厂商提供出来的可能性就越小。例如：1970年美国通用汽车公司研制出了一种汽车污染物排放控制装置，每个售价20美金，如果每个车尾都装上这一装置，可使汽车排放的污染下降30％至50％。然而，污染的降低是一种公共产品，每个人呼吸空气质量是否改善并不取决于自己的车上是否装上这个新发明，而是取决于该地区大多数车主的选择，于是大多数人都不想多花20美元而只是试图搭便车，结果，在私人市场上，这种公共产品的产量总难以达到最佳水平。私人不能提供公共产品，就只能由政府出面担当此项职能。事实上，私人经济中的政府，最初就是为了提供公共产品(法律、国防、公安等等)的目的由众多私人共同建立起来的。政府这一职能具体体现为：①尽可能正确地估价社会对公用产品的实际需求；②按照社会福利最大化的原则确定税收比率，并用税收收入购置公用产品，为公众提供服务。 4.囚徒困境：指两个被捕获的囚犯之间的一种特殊“博弈”，说明为什么甚至在合作对双方有利时，保持合作也是困难的。囚犯两难处境的故事包含着一个一般性的结论，这个结论适用于任何一个力图维持其成员合作的集团。这是博弈论中的一个经典例证，同一市场上的寡头在力图达到垄断结果时的博弈类似于两个处于两难处境的囚犯的博弈。具体情况如下：两囚徒被指控是一桩罪案的同案犯。他们被分关在不同的牢房且无法互通信息。各囚徒都被要求坦白罪行。如果两囚徒都坦白，各将被判入狱5年；如果两人都不坦白，则很难对他们提起刑事诉讼，因而两囚徒可以期望被从轻发落为入狱2年；另一方面，如果一个囚徒坦白而另一个囚徒不坦白，坦白的囚徒就只需入狱1年，而另一个将被判入狱10年。那么囚徒将会怎么选择呢？下表归纳了各种可能的结果。（其中“得益”是负的，表格右下角单元格意思是两个囚徒各2年徒刑）。该表说明，这两个囚徒面临着一种困境。如果他们都不坦白（以一种会遵守的方法），那么两人只需入狱仅仅2年。但他们不能相互讲话，如果囚徒A不坦白，他就冒着被B利用的危险。因为不管囚徒A怎么选择，囚徒B坦白总是最优方案。

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第十六章寡头 复习题 1．如果一个卖者集团可以形成一个卡特尔，它们想确定的产量和价格是什么? 答：如果一个卖者集团可以形成一个卡特尔，它们想确定的产量和价格是对整个卡特尔来说利润最大化的产量与价格。 2．比较寡头与垄断的产量与价格。 答：如果寡头们可以联合起来统一行动的话，寡头与垄断的产量和价格相等。当寡头企业个别选择利润最大化的产量时，它们的产量大于垄断的产量水平，小于竞争的产量水平。寡头价格小于垄断价格，大于竞争价格。 3．比较寡头与竞争市场的产量与价格。 答：寡头价格高于竞争价格。寡头产量低于竞争产量。 4．一个寡头市场上的企业数量如何影响市场结果? 答：随着寡头市场上卖者数量增加，寡头市场就越来越像竞争市场，价格接近于边际成本，生产量接近于有效率的水平。 5．什么是囚犯两难处境?它与寡头有什么关系? 答：囚犯两难处境是指两个被捕获的囚犯之间的一种特殊“博弈”，说明为什么甚至在合作对双方有利时，保持合作也是困难的。 囚犯两难处境的故事包含着一个一般性的结论，这个结论适用于任何一个力图维持其成员合作的集团。同一市场上的寡头在力图达到垄断结果时的博弈类似于两个处于两难处境的囚犯的博弈。 6．举出寡头之外的两个例子，说明囚犯的两难处境如何有助于解释行为? 答：例一，共有资源的使用。设想两个渔民——杰瑞和麦克，他们共同拥有一个湖泊，湖泊中价值2万美元的鱼类资源归他们共有。造一条渔船要花1 000美元。两人各有一条渔船，每人将得到一半的鱼类资源，可以赚9 000美元(1万美元收益减1 000美元成本)，两人都可以造第二条渔船。如果某个人在三条渔船中拥有两条，他就得到三分之二的鱼类资源，这将带来11 333美元的利润。但如果两人都造第二条船，又是平分鱼类资源，而且两人的利润都下降，是8 000美元。表16－1表示杰瑞和麦克的博弈。 表16－1 共有资源博弈 例二，广告博弈。考虑两家化妆品公司——甲和乙，面临决策。如果两家都不向用户赠送免费试用的化妆品，它们平分市场。如果两家都向用户赠送免费试用的化妆品，他们仍平分市场，但利润少了，因为要承担送赠品的成本。但如果一家公司送赠品而另一家不送，送赠品的一家就把另一家公司的顾客吸引走了。表16—2是这两家公司的博弈。 表16—2 化妆品公司的博弈利己行为使这两家公司得到不良后果。

曼昆 经济学原理(第五版) 课后答案

第十二章税制的设计 复习题 1．在过去的几十年来，政府的增长比经济中的其他部分快还是慢? 答：在过去几十年间，政府的增长比经济中其他部分快。数据表明，美国经济中包括联邦、州和地方政府在内的政府收入在总收人中所占百分比的增长速度快于经济中其他部分。 2．美国联邦政府收入最重要的两个来源是什么? 答：美国联邦政府收入最重要的两个来源是个人收入所得税和用于社会保障的工薪税。 3．解释公司利润如何双重纳税。 答：当企业赚到利润时，它要按公司所得税交税；当企业用其利润向公司股东支付股息时，按个人所得税第二次交税。 4．为什么纳税人的税收负担大于政府得到的收入? 答：因为纳税人的税收负担除了向政府交纳的税收之外，还包括两种成本：一是税收改变了激励所引起的资源配置扭曲；二是遵守税法的管理负担。这两种成本没有政府的收入作为补偿。因此，纳税人的税收负担大于政府得到的收入。 5．为什么一些经济学家支持对消费征税，而不是对收入征税? 答：因为对收入征税扭曲了对人们储蓄的激励，鼓励人们少储蓄。如果政府采取消费税，储蓄起来的全部收入在最后支出前都不征税，就不会扭曲人们的储蓄决策。 6．举出富有的纳税人应该比贫穷纳税人多纳税的两种观点。 答：这方面的观点有受益原则和能力纳税原则。 受益原则认为：人们应该根据他们从政府服务中得到的利益来纳税。通常富人从公共服务中受益多，他们应该多纳税。 能力纳税原则认为：应该根据一个人所能承受的负担来对这个人征税。显然，富人的财务承受能力强于穷人，富人应该多纳税。 7．什么是横向平等概念。为什么运用这个概念是困难的? 答：横向平等是指主张有相似支付能力的纳税人应该缴纳等量税收的思想。这一原则面临的问题是什么决定两个纳税人是相似的。每个纳税人在许多方面不同，为了评价税收是不是横向平等，必须决定哪些差别对纳税人的支付能力是相关的，哪些是不相关的。这些相关关系的确定是复杂而困难的。它不仅涉及经济学问题，还涉及价值观问题，很难说确定的结果是否公平。 8．说明支持与反对用单一税率取代现行税制的观点。 答：单一税率的支持者认为：(1)单一税率税将取消现行所得税的许多税收减免。通过用这种方法扩大税基，固定税能够降低大多数人面临的边际税率。税率越低意味着经济福利越大。因此，单一税率支持者声称，这种改变将扩大经济馅饼的规模。(2)由于单一税率税如此简单，所以，赋税的管理负担将大大降低。(3)由于所有纳税人都面临相同的边际税率，所以可以按收入来源而不是按得到收入的人来收税。这种额外的简单化也降低了管理成本。 (4)单一税率税将取代个人所得税和公司所得税。所有收入无论是来自工作中的劳动还是来自公司中拥有的股份，都按相同的边际税率一次性纳税。单一税率将消除目前对公司利润的双重征税，这就可以鼓励企业投资于新工厂和设备。(5)在为纳税计算收入时，允许企业扣除所有合法的经营支出，包括新投资品的支出。这种投资扣除使单一税率税更像消费税而不像所得税。结果，变为单一税率税将提高对投资的激励。 单一税率税的反对者认为：这种税很少注意纵向平等的目标。他们声称，单一税率税的累进性要小于现在的税制，而且，特别是它会把一些税收负担从富人身上转移到中产阶级身上。

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Examine why people tend to use common r esour ces too much Consider some of the impor tant common r esour ces in our economy Consider some of the impor tant public goods in our economy Lear n t he def ini ng characteristics of public goods and common r esour ces Examine why private markets fail to pr ovide public goods See why the cost-benefit analysis of public goods is both necessar y and dif ficult An old song lyric maintains that “the best things in life are free.” A moment’s thought reveals a long list of goods that the songwriter could have had in mind. Na-ture provides some of them, such as rivers, mountains, beaches, lakes, and oceans.The government provides others, such as playgrounds, parks, and parades. In each case, people do not pay a fee when they choose to enjoy the benefit of the good.Free goods provide a special challenge for economic analysis. Most goods in our economy are allocated in markets, where buyers pay for what they receive and sellers are paid for what they provide. For these goods, prices are the signals that guide the decisions of buyers and sellers. When goods are available free of charge,however, the market forces that normally allocate resources in our economy are absent. In this chapter we examine the problems that arise for goods without market prices. Our analysis will shed light on one of the Ten Principles of Economics P U B L I C G O O D S A N D C O M M O N R E S O U R C E S 225