Suppose that due to a severe drought in Texas, 100,000 farmers relocate from Texas to Louisiana. Assuming that land and labor are complements in a farming production function, what would happen to the wages earned by workers and the rents earned by landowners in Louisiana?
a. Both wages and rents would increase.
b. Both wages and rents would decrease.
c. Wages would increase, and rents would decrease.
d. Wages would decrease, and rents would increase.
d
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Refer to the figure below.________ inflation will eventually move the economy pictured in the diagram from short-run equilibrium at point ________ to long-run equilibrium at point ________.
A. Rising; A B. Falling; A; C C. Falling; B: C D. Rising; A; C
Since 1960, countries in Africa have grown at rates ________ those of the main industrial countries
A) far below B) far above C) about the same D) slightly below E) slightly above
If government spending is held constant and Ricardian equivalence holds,
A) an increase in the government budget deficit is always matched by a reduction in private savings. B) an increase in government savings is always matched by an increase in the government budget deficit. C) an increase in government savings is always matched by an equal increase in private savings. D) an increase in government savings is always matched by an equal reduction in private savings.
Normative economic analysis tends to
A) generate testable hypotheses. B) include the way someone thinks things should be or ought to be. C) involve descriptive statements. D) lead to empirical testing of data.