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1. Regulations that offer imperfect answers Group of answer choices Reflect the realistic choices that society must make between imperfect markets and imperfect government intervention. Are options that should never be implemented. Will always have costs greater than their benefits. Are not consistent with utility maximization in the real world. 2. An unregulated natural monopoly is most likely to Group of answer choices Produce where marginal cost equals price. Charge a lower price than if the same product were produced...
[8] In Keynesian economics the most important factor determining whether the level of economic activity is growing or shrinking is: A) the multiplier effect. B) government expenditure and tax policies. C) the behavior of nonincome-determined spending. D) the relationship between leakages from and injections into the spending stream. [9] Using the Keynesian approach, if leakages from the spending stream are less than injections, the current level of output is: A) less than the equilibrium level of output, and will increase....
Discuss Adam Smith’s several theories of value. Explain Adam Smith’s analysis of the role of supply and demand in relation to the determination of short run and natural price. Why does Adam Smith reject the labor theory of value? What are the primary causes and factors in Smith’s view of the process of economic growth? Discuss Adam Smith’s several theories of wages. Why does Ricardo abandon the pure labor theory of value – and to what extent does he abandon...
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Question 3 (1 point) What would happen without the government's protection of property rights? U Businesses would have less incentive to provide goods and services There would be less government regulation of businesses and prices would be lower for consumers. U Taxes would be lower, causing less market inefficiencies U Businesses would have more freedom with production processes Question 4 (1 point) What does inflation cause? incomes to fall productivity to increase the government to lower taxes...
STUDY QUESTIONS 1. Of what use is a market model? How do we relate it to reality? 2. Why does perfect competition simplify both marketing and procurement for a manager? 3. What is meant by the entry and exit of firms? Why are entry and exit easy or difficult in the various market models? 4. How do demand curves vary in the different market models? How does each affect managerial behavior and planning? 5. What is a supply-and-demand model? 6....
4. Which of the following is NOT a true statement about market conditions for firms under perfect competition a. Each firm will produce as efficiently as possible b. Consumer surplus is maximized. c. Economic profits of firms will always be zero in the long run. d. Government intervention must move markets to equilibrium. c. Price - Long-Run Marginal Cost - min Long-Run Average Cost 5. In the market shown on the graph on the right ATC a. Mark profit maximizing...
ECON Assignment 1 Name: 1) Economics is best defined as the study of A) Financial decision-making. B) How consumers make purchasing decisions. C) Choices made by people faced with scarcity D) Inflation, unemployment, and economic growth. 2) Scarcity can best be defined as a situation in which A) There are no buyers willing to purchase what sellers have produced. B) There are not enough goods to satisfy all of the buyers' demand C) The resources we use to produce goods...
Media Analysis Question In today's economy, many sectors telecoms, cable TV, digital branches from social media to internet search, health insurance, pharmaceuticals, agro-business, and many more cannot be understood through the lens of competition. In these sectors, what competition exists is oligopolistic, not the "pure" competition depicted in textbooks. A few sectors can be defined as "price taking": firms are so small that they have no effect on market price. Agriculture is the clearest example, but government intervention in the...
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23. When demand and supply both decrease, the impact on price and quantity is that the shifts reinforce each other with respect to quantity, which decreases, but they act as countervailing forces along the price axis. (TRUE/FALSE)? 24. How would you characterize the term business cycle? A. Short-term fluctuation in economic cycle B. Long-term fluctuation in economic activity c. Short-term fluctuation in economic activity D. None of the above 25. You are in a...
9.What is Say’s Law and what do classical economists say about prices, wages, and interest rates? What are the three states of the economy in relating the real GDP to natural real GDP? In a recessionary gap, is there a surplus or a shortage of production? What does that imply about the labor market and how wages may change? Understand the differences between a recessionary gap, inflationary gap, and long run equilibrium. How is the physical production possibilities frontier (PPF)...