On august 5, 2003, a tragic fire destroyed a large jim beam whiskey factory in kentucky. assume that the u. s. market for whiskey is perfectly competitive, and that the market was originally in long run equilibrium. what would be the effects of such an incident?
a. an increase in supply would cause a reduction in price, which would then lead to entry of firms.
b. a decrease in supply would cause an increase in price, which would then lead to entry of firms.
c. an increase in supply would cause an increase in price, which would then lead to entry of firms
d. a decrease in supply would cause an increase in price, which would then lead to exit of firms.
e. price of the whiskey would remain unchanged and the existing firms would continue to earn zero economic profit.

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two years ago, when picking flowers in the mountains back of yosemite valley; i found a book. it was blotted and storm-beaten, all of its outer pages were mealy and crumbly. the paper seemed to dissolve like the snow beneath which it had been buried, however, many of the inner pages were well preserved. and although all were more or less stained and torn; whole chapters were easily readable. this is the condition of the great open book of yosemite glaciers today, its granite pages have been torn and blurred by the same storms that wasted the castaway book.