The consumption of fixed capital in each year's production is called ________.
A. net investment
B. depreciation
C. indirect business taxes
D. inventory reduction
Answer: B
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The authority of the government to take private property for public use, given just compensation to the owner, is known as
A) search and seizure. B) eminent domain. C) authoritarian capitalism. D) internalizing an externality.
The idea of policy making taking place in response to a predetermined set of rules is referred to as
A) active policy making. B) discretionary policy making. C) passive policy making. D) Keynesianism.
Suppose that sharply lower coffee prices lead to a decrease in the demand for tea. Tea price decreases, and the tea producers experience short-run economic losses. If the tea industry is a price-taker market, after sufficient time is allowed for the market to adjust fully to the decrease in the demand for tea, one would expect the tea industry's output to
a. increase and economic losses to persist. b. decline and economic losses to persist. c. decline and economic losses to disappear. d. increase and economic losses to disappear
If a country imposes a $10 tariff on a foreign monopolist, the price received by the monopolist, net of the tariff, will:
a. fall by $10. b. fall by less than $10. c. fall by more than $10. d. fall by $0.