Consider a fishery with the following production function where L is the number of fishermen and TP (total product) is the total number of fish caught among all fishermen. L            1,  2,  3 ,  4,  5,  6 ,  7,  8,  9,  10 TP         18,  34,  48,  60,  70,  78,  84,  88,  90,  90 The price of fish is $2 and the wage of a fisherman is $24. A. If the fishery is private property, how many fishermen will the owner hire? B. If the fishery is common property, how many people will come to fish?  (Assume people fish as a job and not for recreation) c. What is the efficient number of fishermen?

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Consider a fishery with the following production function where L is the number of fishermen and TP (total product) is the total number of fish caught among all fishermen.

L            1,  2,  3 ,  4,  5,  6 ,  7,  8,  9,  10

TP         18,  34,  48,  60,  70,  78,  84,  88,  90,  90

The price of fish is $2 and the wage of a fisherman is $24.

A. If the fishery is private property, how many fishermen will the owner hire?

B. If the fishery is common property, how many people will come to fish?  (Assume people fish as a job and not for recreation)

c. What is the efficient number of fishermen? 

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