If the government accelerates money supply growth and enlarges the budget deficit to stimulate aggregate demand, the rational expectations hypothesis indicates that decision makers will:
a. ignore the policy until it exerts an observable impact on prices, output, and employment.
b. quickly take steps to adjust their decision making in light of the more expansionary policies.
c. be fooled at the outset but eventually adjust their decision making in accordance with the change in policy.
d. be unaware that this policy change has been implemented until a higher rate of inflation is observed.
b
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A model in which individual producers act as price setters, because there are only a few sellers and the product they sell is not standardized, is called
A) imperfect competition. B) perfect competition. C) monopoly. D) monopsony.
Philosopher John Rawls's theory of justice presents an argument in favor of income equality that relies on the
a. belief that, objectively, people would rather trade the uncertainties of fortune for the certainty of moderate income b. belief that human beings are perfectible, and it is the unequal distribution of property that creates unequal distribution of incomes c. argument that in a world of identical individuals, equality of incomes achieves the greatest welfare number of people d. argument that income equality breeds the most efficient use of economy's resources e. idea that private property originates from theft
Which of the following would be most likely to have monopoly power?
a. an online bookstore b. a municipal water company c. a local restaurant d. a grocery store
A theory is
A) built on the major factors or variables that the theorist believes explain some event. B) a simplified abstract representation of the real world. C) used to understand the real world. D) a and b E) a, b, and c