In Arbitrageville, 1 orange can be exchanged for 4 apples, and 4 apples for 1 orange. The
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a. Explain why the clerk, a sharp entrepreneur, immediately reaches under the counter and offers the mayor 3 apples.
b. What should the mayor have said about how many apples the clerk would need to offer him for 1 orange, assuming that the mayor was maximizing his utility? What equation tells us how the mayor's preferences relate to prices?
c. If the mayor maintained his preferences, how could the clerk wind up with all of the mayor's oranges and the mayor (eventually) without a penny to his name?
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Microeconomics
ISBN: 9781464146978
1st Edition
Authors: Austan Goolsbee, Steven Levitt, Chad Syverson
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