Economic theory assumes people make decisions by weighing additions to cost against additions to benefit, which can best be described as
A) additivism.
B) capitalism.
C) marginalism.
D) opportunism.
E) rationalism.
C
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When a tariff is imposed, the supply curve for the imported good
A) shifts downward and to the right. B) shifts upward and to the left. C) does not change. D) becomes perfectly inelastic.
Why do permanent tax cuts have a greater impact on consumption than temporary tax cuts?
a. Permanent tax cuts have a greater effect on expected long-run inflation. b. Permanent tax cuts are perceived as minor while temporary tax cuts are larger and more effective. c. Permanent tax cuts cause movement along the consumption function, while temporary tax cuts shift the consumption function. d. Permanent tax cuts affect expectations of long-run income more than temporary tax cuts.
Nonactivists hold that
A) activist monetary policies are likely to be destabilizing rather than stabilizing. B) economic fine-tuning is quite feasible. C) flexibility in wages and prices is sufficient to allow the economy to return at a reasonable speed to full-employment output. D) a and c E) all of the above
All of the following are problems in measuring the unemployment rate except that
What will be an ideal response?