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james9437 · **on:** Jun 30, 2018

If the firms in a market have constant returns to scale internally while there are external economies of scale for the industry, a firm's long-run supply curve will be ________ and the long-run market supply curve will be ________.

A) downward sloping; downward sloping
B) upward sloping; horizontal
C) horizontal; downward sloping
D) downward sloping; horizontal
E) upward sloping; downward sloping

Question 2

Since World War II, the likelihood that any single item in the typical consumption basket of a consumer in the U.S. originated outside of the U.S.

A) remained constant.
B) increased.
C) decreased.
D) fluctuated widely with no clear trend.
E) increased slightly before dropping off.