Economists Lochner and Moretti have identified external benefits to education in the form of
A. improved melodies produced by better-educated musicians.
B. education-related crime reductions.
C. the higher quality of elected officials chosen by better-educated voters.
D. higher salaries earned by better-educated engineers.
Answer: B
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The sum of the explicit and implicit costs incurred in the production process is called:
a. fixed cost. b. sunk cost. c. marginal cost. d. total cost.
Refer to the graph below. The long-run average change in real GDP is shown by
a. the Growth trend line.
b. the contraction.
c. the expansion.
d. the peak.
According to the rational expectations school,
a. the Phillips curve is upward sloping in the short run and downward sloping in the long run b. both for the short and long runs, the Phillips curve is horizontal c. both for the short and long runs, the Phillips curve is vertical d. there is no Phillips curve e. Keynesians assume irrational expectations behavior on the part of firms and individuals that allows them, erroneously, to conclude that there are no trade-offsbetween inflation and unemployment
Monetary payments to nonowners of a firm are called:
A. implicit costs. B. accounting costs. C. explicit costs. D. economic costs.