中等ECON-PRDC-018
A bakery owner pays herself no wage and uses a shop she could have rented out for $20,000 a month. Economic cost, compared with accounting cost:
A. Is lower, because implicit costs are subtracted.
B. Is the same, because no cash is paid.
C. Ignores the $20,000 because rent was not charged.
D. Is higher, because it includes the forgone wage and the forgone rent.✓ 答案
解說
Accounting cost records explicit payments. Economic cost also includes implicit opportunity cost: the wage she could earn elsewhere and the rent she gives up. Those do not appear as cash outflows, but they are real costs of using the resources in the bakery.