Economan has been infected by the free enterprise bug. He invests in some equipment to do research and publish results. He sets up and runs a firm that studies extraterrestrial genetic studies. For a one-year period the rent of the building is $20,000, the cost of two secretaries is $120,000 total, and the cost of utilities comes to $40,000. There is demand for the services and the revenues total $250,000 for the year. By working in the firm, though, Economan forfeits the $50,000 he could earn by working for the Friendly Space Agency and the $4,000 he could have earned as interest had he saved his funds instead of putting them in his business. a) What is the profit o loss by an accountant's definitions? b) What is profit or loss by an economist's definitions?
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