What typically happens to benefits as the amount of an activity is increased?
A) Total benefits remain constant.
B) Marginal benefit increases.
C) Marginal benefit remains constant.
D) Marginal benefit decreases.
E) The marginal benefit changes only if the marginal cost changes.
D
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A $100 million decrease in government expenditure on goods and services leads to an even larger decrease in aggregate demand because of
A) induced changes in consumption expenditures. B) automatic fiscal policy. C) induced changes in aggregate supply. D) discretionary fiscal policy. E) the reinforcing effect of monetary policy.
Your neighbor has knowledge of economics and you would like her to share it with you. You own a car, a CD player and a new pair of running shoes. You wish to make a trade, but the neighbor does not want what you have. The problem can be stated as follows: You are not satisfying the
A) rule of transaction costs. B) double coincidence of wants. C) law of marketability. D) terms of a common denominator.
Americans buying Japanese cars create a
A) demand for U.S. dollars and supply of Japanese yen. B) demand for both U.S. dollars and Japanese yen. C) supply of U.S. dollars and demand for Japanese yen. D) supply of both U.S. dollars and Japanese yen.
Compared to a competitive market with the same long-run costs and market demand, a monopolist has:
A.) Less pressure to reduce costs and less incentive to improve quality. B.) Less pressure to reduce costs and more incentive to improve quality. C.) More pressure to reduce costs and less incentive to improve quality. D.) More pressure to reduce costs and more incentive to improve quality.