Harvey quit his job at State University, where he earned $50,000 a year. He figures his entrepreneurial talent or forgone entrepreneurial income to be $7,000 a year. To start the business, he cashed in $80,000 in bonds that earned 10 percent interest annually to buy a software company, Extreme Gaming. In the first year, the firm sold 17,000 units of software at $70 for each unit. Of the $70 per unit, $52 goes for the costs of production, packaging, marketing, employee wages and benefits, and rent on a building.
The implicit costs of Harvey's firm in the first year were
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$840,000
$216,000
$151,000
$65,000
