Suppose real GDP is currently $12.5 trillion and potential real GDP is $13 trillion. If the president and Congress increased government purchases by $500 billion, what would be the result on the economy?
What will be an ideal response?
The economy would go from a short-run equilibrium below potential GDP to a short-run equilibrium above potential GDP. The increase in government purchases, which equals the shortfall in real GDP from potential real GDP, is too large. The increase in government purchases needs to be less than the shortfall in real GDP because of the multiplier effect.
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a. Inventing the telegraph. b. Inventing the steam engine. c. Developing the technology to power railroad engines. d. Overseeing the building of the Erie Canal.
A bumper crop would be bad news for farmers if their crop has an inelastic demand because their total revenue would:
A. rise along with price. B. rise as price falls. C. fall as price rises. D. fall along with price.
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A) the total quantities demanded of all consumers of a particular item at given prices. B) a movement along the demand curve in response to the market. C) total equilibrium demand for the market. D) the demand for and supply of a good or service.
Currently
where "s" and "a" refer to steel and aluminum, and Ps and Pa refer to the prices of steel and aluminum, and MPs and MPa refer to the marginal products of steel and aluminum, respectively, for a firm. Has the firm come up with the right amounts of steel and aluminum, or should it reallocate its resources to make the maximum profit?
What will be an ideal response?