Related to the Economics in Practice on Page 3: According

question 62

Multiple Choice

Related to the Economics in Practice on page 3: According to the Economics in Practice, when rains in rural India are plentiful, the opportunity cost of having someone out of the labor force, and therefore unable to work in agricultural production,

• A) increases.
• B) decreases.
• C) remains unchanged.
• D) is zero, because the person is out of the labor force.

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