His analysis started with the recognition that the total quantity demanded of an economy's output was the sum of four types of spending: consumer expenditure, planned investment spending, government spending, and net exports

A) John Maynard Keynes
B) Sir John Hicks
C) Milton Friedman
D) Paul A. Samuelson


A

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If the nominal interest rate parity condition is not met,

A) imports will exceed exports. B) the return from holding domestic assets must exceed the expected return from holding foreign assets. C) the return from holding domestic assets must be less than the expected return from holding foreign assets. D) the return from holding domestic assets must be greater or less than the expected return from holding foreign assets.

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Technological progress generally has the effect of

a. creating permanently higher levels of unemployment. b. freeing resources that can now go to other uses. c. lowering the national standard of living. d. doing all of the above.

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If the existing unemployment rate is 3.1 percent and the natural unemployment rate is 4.5 percent, the cyclical unemployment rate is ________ percent.

a. 7.6 b. 3.8 c. -1.4 d. 1.4

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