Susie and rashida are secretaries to two different department chairs in the same office suite. susie is very talkative and is a natural extravert. rashida is very focused on completing reports and spreadsheets and needs complete silence when working. both view their jobs very differently (susie has a customer service focus while rashida views herself as a support to her department chair), and their bosses are very supportive of their differing approaches to the job. their different personalities results in an ongoing conflict that is impossible to resolve and is very messy. this is an example of a(n)

6. why the aggregate supply curve slopes upward in the short run in the short run, the quantity of output that firms supply can deviate from the natural level of output if the actual price level in the economy deviates from the expected price level. several theories explain how this might happen. for example, the misperceptions theory asserts that changes in the price level can temporarily mislead firms about what is happening to their output prices. consider a soybean farmer who expects a price level of 100 in the coming year. if the actual price level turns out to be 90, soybean prices will , and if the farmer mistakenly assumes that the price of soybeans declined relative to other prices of goods and services, she will respond by the quantity of soybeans supplied. if other producers in this economy mistake changes in the price level for changes in their relative prices, the unexpected decrease in the price level causes the quantity of output supplied to the natural level of output in the short run.