In the nineteenth century, U.S. farmers were ordinarily debtors. Farmers typically borrowed from banks to develop new acreage and to be able to purchase necessary inputs prior to each growing season. Why did farmers generally support public policies that were inflationary?
In times of unanticipated inflation, farmers were able to repay their loans with less valuable dollars. The rising price of crops would mean that farmers needed to produce slightly less crops in order to repay their loans.
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To determine the change in the capital stock, the level of new investment must be adjusted for depreciation because some new investment
A) is not used immediately. B) replaces existing workers. C) is more efficient than existing capital. D) merely replaces existing, but worn out, capital.
When economists speak of full employment, they refer to the case in which the sum of frictional and structural unemployment is
A) falling over time. B) equal to zero. C) equal to the actual amount of unemployment. D) greater than the level of deficient demand unemployment.
The marginal productivity theory of distribution holds that
a. each factor is paid what it deserves. b. the owner of each factor is paid the amount that the factor contributes to earnings. c. each factor's income depends on how hard it works. d. each factor receives an equal share of the revenue from production.
Suppose a certain firm is able to produce 165 units of output per day when 15 workers are hired. The firm is able to produce 181 units of output per day when 16 workers are hired, holding other inputs fixed. The marginal product of the 16th worker is
a. 10 units of output. b. 11 units of output. c. 16 units of output. d. 181 units of output.