In the early 2000s, Chinese officials indicted members of a forgery syndicate that sold several hundred diplomas to high school graduates who needed the diplomas to take employment tests. This situation, where having the certificate of knowledge is more important than the knowledge itself, is known as:
A. the brain drain.
B. human capital.
C. certification.
D. credentialism.
Answer: D
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A) quadrupled; the Fed's actions with quantitative easing B) doubled; the Fed's actions with quantitative easing C) tripled; the Fed's actions with quantitative easing D) quadrupled; the Fed's actions and the resulting reduction of the money multiplier E) tripled; the Fed's actions and the resulting reduction of the currency drain
If firms and workers have adaptive expectations, what impact will contractionary monetary policy have on inflation, unemployment, and the Phillips curve?
What will be an ideal response?
Nominal gross domestic product (GDP) is a better measure of growth in production than real GDP
a. True b. False Indicate whether the statement is true or false
If the marginal cost of producing steel exceeds the marginal utility of using steel, then for economic efficiency,
A. the price of steel should fall. B. society should produce less steel. C. the price of goods made with steel should fall. D. society should direct resources toward steel production and away from the production of other goods.