Istanbul's Dolmabaçe Palace, Built near the End of the Ottoman

question 237

Multiple Choice

Istanbul's Dolmabaçe Palace, built near the end of the Ottoman Empire, rests on a former garden that was created in the eighteenth century at great expense by filling in a bay. (Dolmabaçe means "filled-in garden" in Turkish.) What does the Dolmabaçe Palace teach us about the elasticity of supply of land?

• A) It is perfectly elastic.
• B) It is not perfectly elastic, but close to it.
• C) It is perfectly inelastic.
• D) It is not perfectly inelastic, but close to it.

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