Related to the Economics in Practice on Page 150: for Pineapple

question 161

Multiple Choice

Related to the Economics in Practice on page 150: For pineapple farmers in Ghana, the choice of how much fertilizer to use was highly dependant on social learning, where the farmers based their decisions on

• A) the amount of fertilizer they used for their previously-grown maize crops.
• B) the amount of fertilizer they were given by the government.
• C) how much fertilizer their more successful neighbor farmers used.
• D) the expected value of their future pineapple crops.

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