Two animals are fighting over some prey. Each can choose one of two stances: passive or aggressive. Moreover,

a. Each prefers to be aggressive if its opponent is passive, and prefers to be passive if its opponent is aggressive;
b. Given its own choice, each animal prefers the outcome when its opponent is passive to the outcome in which its opponent is aggressive.

Choose your own payoff numbers to formulate the interaction as a matrix game and find its Nash equilibria.

Suppose that kenji, an economist from an am talk radio program, and lucia, an economist from a school of industrial relations, are arguing over health insurance. the following dialogue shows an excerpt from their debate: lucia: a popular topic for debate among politicians as well as economists is the idea of providing government assistance for health benefits. kenji: i think it is oppressive for the government to tax people who take care of themselves in order to pay for health insurance for those who are obese. lucia: i disagree. i think government funding of health insurance is useful to ensure basic fairness. the disagreement between these economists is most likely due to . despite their differences, with which proposition are two economists chosen at random most likely to agree? lawyers make up an excessive percentage of elected officials. minimum wage laws do more to harm low-skilled workers than them. tariffs and import quotas generally reduce economic welfare.

Acompany has two products: standard and deluxe. the company expects to produce 36,375 standard units and 62,240 deluxe units. it uses activity-based costing and has prepared the following analysis showing budgeted cost and cost driver activity for each of its three activity cost pools.budgeted activity of cost driver activity cost pool budgeted cost standard deluxe activity 1 $ 93,000 2,500 5,250 activity 2 $ 92,000 4,500 5,500 activity 3 $ 87,000 3,000 2,800 what is the overhead cost per unit for the standard units? what is the overhead cost per unit for the deluxe units? (round activity rate and cost per unit answers to 2 decimal places.)activity expected costs expected activity driver activity rate1 93,000 2 92,000 3 87,000 standard activity activity driver activity rate allocated costs1 2 3

The following data were taken from the records of clarkson company for the fiscal year ended june 30, 2017. raw materials inventory 7/1/16 $58,100 factory insurance $4,800 raw materials inventory 6/30/17 46,600 factory machinery depreciation 17,100 finished goods inventory 7/1/16 99,700 factory utilities 29,400 finished goods inventory 6/30/17 21,900 office utilities expense 9,350 work in process inventory 7/1/16 21,200 sales revenue 560,500 work in process inventory 6/30/17 29,400 sales discounts 4,700 direct labor 147,550 plant manager’s salary 63,400 indirect labor 25,360 factory property taxes 9,910 accounts receivable 28,000 factory repairs 2,500 raw materials purchases 97,300 cash 39,200 a) prepare a cost of goods manufactured schedule (assume all raw materials used were direct materials). b) prepare an income statement through gross profit c)prepare the current assets section of the balance sheet at june 30, 2014