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Microeconomics Canada in The Global Environment Canadian 9th Edition Parkin Solutions Manual 1
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Microeconomics Canada in The Global Environment Canadian 9th Edition Parkin Solutions Manual 1
C h a p t e r 5
EFFICIENCY AND EQUITY
• Force: Generally works well when used to uphold the rule of law. An example is
the state imprisoning thieves and thereby preventing resource allocation by the
thief stealing the resource.
4. Provide an example of each allocation method that illustrates when it works
badly.
Below are examples of when each allocation method would work badly:
• Market price: Deciding court cases on the basis of who will pay the most for the
decision.
• Command: Running an economy.
• Majority rule: Deciding how many hectares of wheat to plant.
• Contest: Allocating food in a winner-take-all contest.
• First-come, first-served: Admitting students to university based on who applied
first.
• Lottery: Assigning grades based on random chance.
• Personal characteristics: Renting only to married couples.
• Force: Stealing by threat of physical harm.
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1. What is the relationship between the marginal benefit, value, and demand?
The value of one more unit of a good is its marginal benefit. The marginal benefit of a good
or service is measured by the maximum amount that consumers are willing to pay for one
more unit of a good or service. The demand curve shows the maximum consumers are
willing to pay for each additional unit, so the demand curve is the same as the marginal
benefit curve.
2. What is the relationship between individual demand and market demand?
The market demand equals the sum of the quantities demanded by all individuals at each
price. So the market demand curve equals the horizontal sum of the individual demand
curves.
3. What is consumer surplus? How is it measured?
Consumer surplus is the excess of the benefit received from a good over the amount paid
for it. The total consumer surplus is the sum of the consumer surpluses on all the units
purchased. It is measured as the area under the demand curve and above the price.
4. What is the relationship between the marginal cost, minimum supply-price, and
supply?
The marginal cost is the cost of producing an additional unit of a good. The marginal cost is
the minimum price that producers must receive to induce them to offer one more unit of a
good or service for sale. This minimum supply-price determines the supply of the good, so
the supply curve is the same as the marginal cost curve.
5. What is the relationship between individual supply and market supply?
The market supply equals the sum of the quantities supplied by all the producers at each
price. The market supply curve is equal to the horizontal sum of all the individual supply
curves.
6. What is producer surplus? How is it measured?
Producer surplus is the excess of the amount received from the sale of a good or service
over the cost of producing it. The producer surplus is measured as the area under the price
and above the supply curve over the entire quantity sold.
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1. Do competitive markets use resources efficiently? Explain why or why not.
In the absence of the sources of market failure, competitive markets use society’s
resources efficiently. For resources to be used efficiently they must be allocated to produce
the quantity of a good or service such that the marginal cost of the last unit produced is
equal to its marginal benefit. This condition will be met in a competitive market because the
equilibrium quantity is determined as the quantity at which the demand curve (which is the
marginal social benefit curve) intersects the supply curve (which is the marginal social cost
curve).
2. What is deadweight loss and under what conditions does it occur?
The deadweight loss is the decrease in total surplus that results from an inefficient level of
production. This is the decrease in consumer surplus plus the decrease in producer
surplus that occurs when the market either overproduces or underproduces relative to the
efficient quantity.
3. What are the obstacles to achieving an efficient allocation of resources in the
market economy?
Markets with price or quantity regulations, taxes or subsidies, externalities, public goods or
common resources, monopoly power, or high transactions costs will not produce the
efficient quantity of a good or service. In each of these situations, the prices charged or
quantities produced and sold will not result in the efficient allocation of resources.
Efficiency requires that the marginal social benefit from the last unit produced be equal to
the marginal social cost. The equilibrium at the intersection of the demand and supply
curves in the competitive market creates this result. When the market price or quantity is
pulled away from the market equilibrium, the marginal social benefit from the last unit
produced does not equal its marginal social cost.
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1. What are the two big approaches to thinking about fairness?
The two big approaches to thinking about fairness are:
“It’s not fair if the result isn’t fair”
“It’s not fair if the rules aren’t fair”
2. What is the utilitarian idea of fairness and what is wrong with it?
The utilitarian idea of fairness implies that equality of incomes is necessary for the
allocation of resources to be “fair.” There should be income transfers from the rich to the
poor until equality is achieved, because the marginal benefit from the last dollar of income
is the same for everybody. There are two problems with utilitarianism:
It ignores the cost of implementing the income transfers, which will decrease the total
goods and services that the finite resources of society can produce. The size of the
economic pie will be smaller.
It ignores the Big Tradeoff, the tradeoff between efficiency and fairness. Taxing people’s
incomes makes them work less, which decreases the size of the economic pie and
diminishes the total amount that can be transferred to the poor.
You lay that dirty hand to my face again, and, blast your vitals, I’ll——
(vehemently)
Shame! Close him up again! (The G again puts his hand over
D ’ mouth and holds it there, despite the prisoner’s struggles.
B approaches them and addresses D severely.) Don’t you
know what day it is? Shame on you!
(amazed and confused)
What it is? What day——
(severely)
I hope that at least you, madam, are aware that this is the Sabbath.
(vacantly)
Sunday? It’s Sunday?
(sternly)
It is. (To D .) We allow no profanity on this vessel on the Sabbath
Day. According to our interpretation, “Blast your vitals” is profanity. Old
man, if you can’t speak without profanity—and on the Seventh Day too
—we won’t let you speak at all. Shame on you!
There it is!
(The G groans, shaking his head, and B sinks despondently
into a chair.)
Why, sin.
I said error. The common error is to misjudge all who walk not in our
own way, and to call them sinners. Then, having called them sinners, we
think they sin every sin. That is the common error; and now, as it is the
Seventh Day and meet for confession, I humbly confess to be an erring
creature, not above this error myself. To make the matter plain to you,
take the calling of a play actor. Now, that is a calling abhorrent to me
from my earliest training. I look upon it as wholly sinful and wanton and
of the way to everlasting fires. Therefore, unless I give heed to second
thoughts, I would believe any play actor guilty of all sins—a man that
would beat his wife and murder little children, perhaps even upon the
Sabbath Day. Yet, if the truth were known, it might be found that just
because a man is a play actor he would not of his nature’s necessity and
habit do these things. Nevertheless, my first thought would be that he
would—because he is a play actor. Fall not into the like misjudgments,
mistress. Know that our ship’s company live under rigid law and rule.
Else we could not hope to prosper. What think you may be our
company’s recreations on this day?
(bitterly)
I suppose they will take to gaming and to carousing on my father’s rum.
(The G and the M B B utter short, grim
laughter.)
(sternly)
When I took my dram o’ brandy I told you it was for no pleasure I had of
it. No man of our company may have his dram o’ Sundays except one,
and that for being cold inside him, nor may any perform any labor except
to the ship’s pressing need. For recreation—none is permitted except the
reading of some religious book.
(incredulously)
What!
(going on, explaining to her with gloomy patience)
As for gaming, neither dice nor cards shall ever be seen on any ship of
mine, I promise you. We permit no gaming any day at all, much less
upon the Seventh. So much for that, madam!
(bitterly)
I see. Your only recreation is to torture your captives!
(shaking his head despondently)
So! (He exchanges a pained, satiric smile with the G .) That’s all
they know of us, is it? (He turns again to L .) Young madam, again
you speak out of your ignorance. You and your father and the young man
here have given us much provocation. Have you heard one word of
profanity from us? Have you even heard a threatening expression?
(pointing at the G )
He said we should be made to suffer for the badness of our cargo.
(severely)
He meant a fine or toll should be levied against your father; but that
would mean our holding him here and having his daily association with
us on our ship until the fine or ransom could be sent from Jamaica. I
would vote against it, because from what we have seen of him I would
rather go without the money.
Why, if what a merchant captain and his crew must expect from us is to
be stripped of all and mishandled, we’d have a fine business of it!
They’d strain twice as hard to outsail us, and fight to death afore we
could board ’em. There’s ruffians in every business that make it harder
for the good, practical men to make it pay; but you shouldn’t judge us by
the exceptions just because the exceptions get more talked about.
(eagerly and hopefully)
Then you’ll put us back aboard our own ship and let us go?
You scratched and fought or you’d not ha’ been touched. Now that
you’ve learned what becomes a respectable-manner female, you’re not
only free to go, but you must go. By the strictest law of our
commonwealth, women are not permitted aboard except when the ship
might be in a port, and then only on Saturday afternoons and only such
as may be wife to one of the crew and accompanied by her mother.
(anxious)
And Robert?
(looking R over)
This is a different matter. He’s a fine, active-bodied seaman and knows
the art of navigating. But more: he has familiar knowledge of all the
upper coast of South America—I had it from the master of your ship—
and we design to cruise upon those coasts. He’s needful to our company.
(piteously)
You mean to take him with you?
(sharply)
He must sign our articles and become one of our commonwealth.
(crying out)
No! No! No!
Why, his case is none so bad. We’ll learn him our business, and if he’s
diligent he’ll rise in it. Who can tell? If we get better cargoes, away from
this discouraging fish and molasses belt of trade, he may come to you in
England, retired and prosperous and ready to marry you—and all belike
within seven or eight years from now!
(wailing)
Seven or eight years! Seven or eight! Eight years! Eight——
(uncomfortably)
Ha’ done with your caterwauling, young female; we must have him.
There’s not one of us can pilot those coasts, and ’twould endanger us to
let him go.
(throwing herself on her knees before him)
Oh, pray don’t separate us!
Don’t beg me! This is a commonwealth, governed by law, and the law
would depose me if I jeopardized the common safety by turning loose
this pilot. He must sign with us. Let him speak.
(The D - -D M releases R , who rushes to L and
helps her to her feet.)
(his arms about her)
Don’t kneel to this ruffian for me, sweetheart.
(angrily)
I told you not to call her sweetheart. You do it for pleasure, and our law
forbids it on the Seventh Day. Stand away from her! Take your arm from
her! You do that for pleasure too.
(hotly)
I do it to protect her.
You don’t. It’s for pleasure, and we won’t have it. Stand away from her, I
say. (R sullenly obeys.) Now we’ll fetch you to the articles of our
company, and you’ll sign ’em.
Hold him here while I get the old man and his daughter back to their own
vessel. (Moving toward the door.) Come, mistress.
(rushing to her father)
Father, you can save him. You can pay ransom for him. You can promise
to send them coin from England. Father!
(to the G )
Bring them with me!
(despairingly)
Father, tell them you’ll pay them. Father——
(appealing)
Mr. Driscoll, if you will, I’ll pay you back. I’ll save till——
(furiously as the G removes his hand from his mouth to
lead him toward the door)
You villain! (This is to R .) You think she’s for the likes of you, do
you? You knew I meant to wed her to her cousin Jock in Liverpool, and
you made love to her on the sly. Don’t look for help from me. You’ve got
your deserts, and I’m glad of it. You’ll hang when they catch you,
because you’re signed and made into a bloody pirate. Why, blast you
——
(peremptorily)
He’s profane again. Stop him!
(The G again claps his hand over D ’ mouth.)
(struggling)
You’re a bloody—bluggy——
(The G shuts him off.)
That’s another oath. You use that word as profanity. Shame! Lock him in
his cabin on his own ship and let him swear there; we can’t have it on
ours. Come, madam.
No!
(held by the two pirates)
Lydia! I shall find a way to throw myself into the sea. (Brokenly.) Think
of me—sometimes!
(sobbing)
Father, you shan’t abandon him. You don’t know—you don’t know—you
don’t know——
(sharply)
He doesn’t know what?
Bla——
Shame on you! It’s worse, him being your son-in-law and almost your
own flesh and blood. Shame!
(indistinctly)
He’s a bloody pirate! He’s a bl——
(rising, gloomily)
No. No, he isn’t—not unless the lady consents. (He turns to L
appealingly.) Now, if he joins us, he might make a very good living and
maybe a snug fortune before middle age. (Hopefully.) Wouldn’t you
consent to it?
(shuddering)
Never!
(sighing heavily)
That’s the end of it, then. (At the table.) He’ll have to be crossed off. (He
draws a line through the scrawled signature “Robert,” and turns to
L .) Our laws strictly forbid us to force a married man unless we
obtain his wife’s consent. Let him go.
(He turns aside in disappointment.)
(springing to L joyously)
Lydia!
(rapturously)
Robert!
(turning upon them sharply)
No sweethearting, now. Stand away from her.
(R and L , checked, stand looking at each other gloomily.)
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