Macroeconomics 11th Edition by Michael Parkin

Exercise 3

After you have studied Reading Between the Lines on pp. 46-47, answer the following questions.
a. How has an Act of the United States Congress increased U.S. production of corn?
b. Why would you expect an increase in the quantity of corn produced to raise the opportunity cost of corn
c. Why did the cost of producing corn increase in the rest of the world
d. Is it possible that the increased quantity of corn produced, despite the higher cost of production, moves the United States closer to allocative efficiency