BRIEFLY DEFINE OR EXPLAIN THE FOLLOWING COMBINATIONS OF
CONCEPTS AND THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE CONCEPTS:
a. marginal benefit, marginal cost, optimal allocation of
resources
b. scarcity, opportunity cost, and rationing device (explain the
role of a rationing device and
discuss two different types of rationing devices or allocative
mechanisms)
c. decreasing opportunity costs, increasing opportunity costs,
constant opportunity costs
d. economic efficiency, technical efficiency, allocative
efficiency
e. consumer surplus, producer surplus
f. demand price, supply price, market price, equilibrium
price