In the graph showing an increase in the growth of the money supply, as the economy moves from point A to point B on the short-run Phillips curve, real wages fall, causing companies to ______.



a. hire more people

b. lay off more workers

c. hire fewer workers

d. cut back production


a. hire more people

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Refer to the figure below. In response to gradually falling inflation, this economy will eventually move from its short-run equilibrium to its long-run equilibrium. Graphically, this would be seen as

A. long-run aggregate supply shifting leftward B. Short-run aggregate supply shifting downward C. Aggregate demand shifting rightward D. Aggregate demand shifting leftward

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In the above figure, a negative relationship is demonstrated in which of the graphs?

A) Figure A B) Figure B C) Figure C D) Figure D

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Compensating differences in wages, pay workers for:

A. differences in worker training and skills. B. differences in the nonmonetary characteristics of jobs. C. geographic immobility. D. discrimination in hiring and firing.

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All points inside the production possibilities curve indicate

A) a lack of sufficient supply. B) inefficiency in production. C) the law of increasing relative cost. D) the law of decreasing relative cost.

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