In a competitive market for Sardines, if Mama Jessica's chain of pizza restaurants decides to support hard-working sardine fishers by paying 15 percent above market price, what would the theory of economic rent predict?
A) The quantity supplied of sardines will exceed the quantity demanded.
B) The quantity demanded of sardined will exceed the quantity supplied.
C) The expected economic profits selling from sardines to Mama Jessica's will exceed the competitive sardine market profits.
D) The expected economic profits selling from sardines to Mama Jessica's will equal the competitive sardine market profits.
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