Manufacturers in the production-oriented marketing era at the turn of the 20th century were concerned with efficient , not with satisfying the needs of consumers.

There are about 6.8 billion people in the world, and about 11.4 billion usable hectares. currently, the population of the united states has an ecological footprint of about 9.0 hectares per person. if all people in the world were to live at the level of consumption found in the united states, the population of the world would have to in order to support them.

Any point on a country's production possibilities frontier represents a combination of two goods that an economy:

Alpha industries is considering a project with an initial cost of $8 million. the project will produce cash inflows of $1.49 million per year for 8 years. the project has the same risk as the firm. the firm has a pretax cost of debt of 5.61 percent and a cost of equity of 11.27 percent. the debt–equity ratio is .60 and the tax rate is 35 percent. what is the net present value of the project?