Areduction in transaction costs will tend to
(a) reduce the number of mutually beneficial exchanges that occur.
(b) make specialization according to the law of comparative advantage more difficult.
(c) decrease the value created by exchanges in an economy.
(d) increase the number of mutually beneficial exchanges that occur.

increase the number of mutually beneficial exchanges that occur.

Explanation:

When you reduce the transactions cost, the number of transactions increase, it means that every agent it’s benefit, because the buyer could afford more transactions and the seller could reduce the price of their products or services that are included in the purchase. Even the agent it's in charge of the transaction its benefit too, because the number of transactions increase due to the increase of the demand.

being born in poverty would limit the people's chances, opportunities and benefits.

this happen because of several things, such as:

- poor people tend to gain less access to good education and nutrition. this mean that their chance to obtain high paying jobs would also be limited.

- poor people tend to socialize with other poor people while the rich tend to socialize with other rich people. this means that simply throguh their social circle, rich people would have more business opportunities compared to the poor people.

- rich people tend to have more capital in their disposal. this would benefit them in business since it is far easier for them to fund their business operation compared to poor people.

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