Article assessment
This assessment deals with Microeconomics, so make sure that you know the concepts described before answering the questions.
Questions: (Use Word to type your answers in no more than a page with 1.5 spacing)
1) Summarize the main point of the article in approximately two paragraphs.
2) Do you agree or disagree with the main idea of this article. Explain why.
3) With fixed capital and variable labor, as long as there are diminishing marginal returns the marginal cost of production will be increasing. Now, from the point of view of a firm in a perfectly competitive market (say a farmer), what criterion do you think they will use to decide whether or not to replace workers with robots or machines in general? Be brief and concise using marginal analysis concepts.
