Dead capital is
A. useful only if employed in a labor-intensive production process.
B. unlikely to have any productive use.
C. useful only if employed in a capital-intensive production process.
D. unlikely to be applied to its most efficient use.
Answer: D
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Amy can produce either 5000 pounds of cheese or 20 cars per year. Mike can produce either 5000 pounds of cheese or 10 cars per year. By the principle of comparative advantage, Mike should specialize in producing
A. cars. B. neither cheese nor cars. C. both cheese and cars. D. cheese.
The table below shows the consumption schedule for a hypothetical economy. All figures are in billions of dollars.RGDPConsumption$600$590610598620606630614640622650630660638If investments were fixed at $16, taxes were zero, government purchases of goods and services were zero, and net exports were zero, then equilibrium real GDP would be $630 initially. If government purchases were then raised from $0 to $10 and lump-sum taxes also increased from $0 to $10, other things constant, the equilibrium real GDP would become
A. $630. B. $650. C. $660. D. $640.
Firms discount future profits at the interest rate r because
A) it is the interest rate on their debt. B) it is the same rate as for households. C) Ricardian equivalence holds. D) it has to equal the marginal productivity of capital in equilibrium.
What is most accurate about the United States' trading patterns between 1850 and 1900?
a. The US exported more finished manufacturers in 1850 than it did in 1900. b. Raw materials accounted for a greater share of US imports in 1850 than they did in 1900. c. Manufactured and raw foodstuffs accounted for about 75% of exports in both 1850 and 1900. d. In 1850, the US's largest export was raw materials and its larges import was finished manufacturers.