Macroeconomics 11th Edition by Michael Parkin

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Time for Tea
Americans are switching to loose-leaf tea for its health benefits. Tea could be grown in the United States, but picking tea leaves would be costly because it can only be done by workers and not by machine.
a. Sketch the marginal benefit curves for tea in the United States before and after Americans began to appreciate the health benefits of loose tea.
b. Explain how the quantity of loose tea that achieves allocative efficiency has changed.
c. Does the change in preferences toward tea affect the opportunity cost of producing tea