While studying with your friend, your friend states, "Our leisure time increases GDP but lowers our economic welfare because it reduces the amount of goods and services we can consume." Is your friend's statement CORRECT?
What will be an ideal response?
Your friend's assertion is incorrect on two counts. First, leisure time does not increase GDP. Indeed, by taking time away from production, leisure time decreases GDP. Second, leisure time increases our economic welfare. People enjoy their leisure time and therefore having more leisure time raises their economic welfare.
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A) supply of money decreases. B) demand for money increases. C) supply of money increases. D) demand for money decreases. E) quantity of money demanded increases.
Refer to the figure above. If a per-unit tax of $1.50 is imposed on the sale of Good X, what is the size of the deadweight loss due to taxation?
A) $5 million B) $7.5 million C) $1.5 million D) $2 million
A low-productivity country will tend to avoid free trade with a high-productivity country. The low-productivity country will be exploited and lose industries in which it has a comparative advantage
a. True b. False
If there is an excess supply of money in the economy,
a. there is also an excess demand for money b. there is also an excess demand for bonds c. there is also an excess supply of bonds d. the interest rate will rise e. the Fed must intervene to restore equilibrium