It Is Argued That Competitive Markets Provide a "Natural Remedy

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Multiple Choice

It is argued that competitive markets provide a "natural remedy" to discriminatory wage practices. Which of the following is widely recognized as a potential limit to the potency of that natural remedy?

• A)Governments sometimes mandate discriminatory practices.
• B)Some employees have a lot of job experience; others have little job experience.
• C)In a discriminatory environment, a competitive firm that takes prices and wages as given has nothing to gain from any particular choice it makes regarding who to hire or which customers to serve.
• D)Not all firms exhibit social responsibility in sufficient measure to counter discriminatory wage practices.

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