The Central Problem Leading to the Development of the Economics

question 19

Multiple Choice

The central problem leading to the development of the economics of information is that:

• A)firms can appropriate all of the gains to their innovations.
• B)information is costly to produce but cheap to reproduce.
• C)the demand for computer technology is perfectly inelastic.
• D)the supply of computer technology is perfectly inelastic.
• E)firms cannot patent information technology.

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