What is the difference between human capital and technology?
Technology is society's understanding of production techniques. Human capital is the labor force's understanding of these ideas. A society may have lots of information available about how to produce goods, but still have lots of people who know little of this information. For example, in the United States there exists information about how best to use a butter churn and how to make lye soap, but most people know nothing about it.
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Inflation targeting is a framework for carrying out monetary policy whereby
A) the central bank commits to a monetary growth rule. B) the central bank commits to achieving a publicly announced level of inflation. C) the central bank commits to achieving a target level of inflation which is never announced publicly. D) the central bank adopts a rigid target for inflation and ignores declines in output.
A simple model of information acquisition for shopping predicts that, the larger the percentage of dealers in an area seen by the typical shopper, the _____ will be the dispersion of the prices _____ relative to their average
a. larger; the buyers pay b. larger; the dealers quote c. smaller; the buyers pay d. smaller; the dealers quote
Bob's Barber Shop cut 3,000 heads of hair in 2016 and 3,100 in 2017. The price of a haircut was $7 in 2016 and $8 in 2017. If 2016 is the base year, what was Bob's contribution to nominal GDP in 2017?
A. $24,800 B. $21,000 C. $21,700 D. $24,000
Varying plant sizes are shown graphically by
A. economies of scale. B. diseconomies of scale. C. the long-run average costs curve. D. diminishing returns. E. negative returns.