With current technology, suppose a firm is producing 500 shirts daily. Also assume that the least-cost combination of resources in producing those shirts is 10 units of labor, 8 units of land, 3 units of capital, and 4 units of entrepreneurial ability, selling at prices of $50, $40, $60, and $30, respectively. If the firm can sell these 500 shirts at $2 per unit, what is its total revenue? Its total cost? Its profit or loss? Will it continue to produce shirts? If this firm’s situation is typical for the other makers of shirts, will resources flow toward or away from this apparel?

What business practice contributed most to andrew carnegie’s ability to form a monopoly?

Amanufacturing firm is considering overhauling the existing compensation strategy. currently every front line employee who works on the assembly line earns the same hourly wage. ideally, management would like to institute a new pay system that involves pay-for-performance. which of the following recommendations is both consistent with scientific management's general emphases and generally good advice for management of this firma. the firm should adopt a differential pay system with one pay level for average performance, and a higher level for good performance. b. the firm should adopt a differential pay system, but the firm should modify it from its original design and provide many different levels of pay associated with different performance levels. c. the firm should understand worker psychology and to focus on pay as the key motivator. d. all of the abovee. none of the above

Which of the following best explains the purpose of a supply schedule? a. to calculate how much time it takes for distribution. b. to indicate how supply and demand relate to price. c. to show the relationship between quantity supplied and prices. d. to demonstrate how the supply decreases as price increases.