Taxes that governments place on imported goods for reasons such as protecting sensitive industries, influencing humanitarian practices, and protecting against dumping are called ____________.
a. tariffs
b. penalties
c. restrictions
d. limits
a. tariffs
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If you buy for $100 a bond that pays 4.57 percent in annual interest and the current interest yield on the bond rises to 5.13 percent, then the price of the bond has fallen
a. True b. False Indicate whether the statement is true or false
Which of the following is a property of a typical indifference curve?
a. upward sloping b. bowed away from the origin c. does not intersect another indifference curve d. a higher one is preferred to a lower one
If a person predicts that a cut in income tax rates will decrease income tax revenues, he or she implicitly assumes that the percentage __________ in the tax base will be __________ the percentage cut in the tax rate
A) rise; less than B) rise; greater than C) rise; equal to D) fall; equal to E) none of the above
Human capital can be increased through
A) investment in new technology. B) decreases in population. C) investment in new machinery. D) education, on-the-job training, and work experience. E) increasing the nation's production of consumption goods.