If net taxes are decreased by $500 billion, and the marginal propensity to consume is 0.80, then which of the following correctly describes the increase in real GDP that will be generated by the decrease in net taxes?
a. $2 trillion
b. $1 trillion
c. $500 billion
d. $400 billion
a
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At a competitive equilibrium, if there are no taxes, subsidies, price regulations, quantity regulations, or externalities,
A) the marginal benefit is greater than the marginal cost. B) resource use is efficient. C) the marginal benefit is less than the marginal cost. D) both the marginal benefit and the marginal cost of the last unit produced equal zero. E) the marginal benefit is greater than the marginal cost by as much as possible.
Perfectly competitive firms are referred to as price takers because the individual firm is so small relative to the market that its output decisions will not have any effect on the market-determined price
Indicate whether the statement is true or false
Sally Jones lost her job at a steel company because of a permanent decline in the demand for steel. Sally Jones is considered by economists to be
A) naturally unemployed. B) cyclically unemployed. C) structurally unemployed. D) frictionally unemployed.
The presence of a distorting tax on wage income can result in
A) MPN < MRT1,C. B) MRT1,C < MRS1,C. C) MPN < w. D) MRS1,C < MPN