Deciding if a company will produce automobiles by robotics or manual labor answers the economic question of:
A. "who consumes the products produced?"
B. "what products will be produced?"
C. "where will the products be consumed?"
D. "how will the products be produced?"
Answer: D
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The self-correcting property of the economy means that output gaps are eventually eliminated by:
A. increasing or decreasing potential output. B. government policy. C. decreasing inflation only. D. increasing or decreasing inflation.
When the Federal Reserve decreases the money supply, at the previous equilibrium interest rate households and firms will now want to
A) sell Treasury bills. B) hold less money. C) neither buy nor sell Treasury bills. D) buy Treasury bills.
A central concept of New Keynesian macroeconomics is that in setting prices and wages, self-interested firms and workers are acting
A) irrationally, since their self-interest is badly damaged by the ensuing business cycles. B) irrationally, since this imposes business cycles on everyone not part of their arrangements. C) rationally, since they do not bear a fully offsetting cost of business cycles. D) rationally, since the total welfare loss of business cycles must be small enough to justify the price and wage setting.
The opportunity cost of an action includes: a. the monetary expenses incurred as a result of the action
b. the highest valued alternative use of the time spent on the action. c. the benefits received as a result of the action. d. only a. and b.