The payment to resource owners has to be equal to ________ in order to keep the resources in their current use

Question

a. what other firms are paying

b. the amount of taxes

c. the amount of debt

d. the opportunity cost of the resource

e. the minimum wage

Answer 1

d. the opportunity cost of the resource

If it's not as much as the opportunity costs, then the resource owners can sell their resources somewhere else and get more money.