Which of the Following Is NOT Considered to Be an Economic

question 177

Multiple Choice

Which of the following is NOT considered to be an economic resource?

• A)your economics professor
• B)the telephone company repair truck
• C)the local gas station
• D)a view of the stars on a clear night

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Definitions:

Inefficient

refers to the suboptimal allocation or use of resources in a way that does not maximize potential output or outcomes.

Voting Paradox

is a situation in social choice theory where collective preferences can be cyclic (A is preferred to B, B is preferred to C, and C is preferred to A), despite the individual preferences being consistent.

Majority-Rule Voting

A decision-making process where the option that receives more than half of the votes is chosen, commonly used in democratic systems and organizations.

Voting Paradox

A situation in social choice theory where collective preferences can be cyclic (i.e., not transitive), even if the preferences of individual voters are not, leading to a lack of consistent aggregation of individual preferences into a coherent group order.