The "You Can't Take It with You" Effect Potentially Increases

question 128

Multiple Choice

The "You can't take it with you" effect potentially increases market power for pharmaceuticals if consumers who are dying of disease are also:

• A) more inclined to spend their money on medicine than to save it.
• B) more inclined to bequeath their money than spend it on medicine.
• C) relatively sensitive to the price of life-saving pharmaceuticals.
• D) relatively sensitive to how they spend money.

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