Use the above table. What percentage of income is received by the richest 20% of the population?
A) 33.33 percent
B) 16.67 percent
C) 11.11 percent
D) 40.00 percent
A
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Which statement below is the best summary of the economic point of view?
A) Society is created and designed by the government. B) Society is controlled by major business conglomerates. C) Society is an unintended outcome of individuals pursuing their own projects. D) All of the above. E) None of the above.
Economic incentives are designed to make individual self-interest coincide with social interest. According to economists, which of the following methods of pollution control best uses economic incentives to reduce pollution?
A) imposing quantitative limits on the amount of pollution and imposing a penalty for non-compliance with these limits B) rewarding environmental groups for monitoring the activities of private firms that produce products which generate pollution C) requiring the installation of specific pollution control devices D) instituting a system of tradable emission allowances
When there are external economies of scale, an increase in the size of the market will
A) increase the number of firms and lower the price per unit. B) increase the number of firms and raise the price per unit. C) decrease the number of firms and raise the price per unit. D) decrease the number of firms and lower the price per unit. E) not affect the number of firms, but will lower the price per unit.
Refer to Figure 10.1. If the level of real GDP is initially Y3, spending is ________ production and there is an unexpected ________ in inventories
A) greater than; increase B) greater than; decrease C) less than; increase D) less than; decrease