How would a decrease in the natural rate of unemployment affect the long-run Phillips curve?
a. It would shift the long-run Phillips curve right.
b. It would shift the long-run Phillips curve left.
c. There would be an upward movement along a given long-run Phillips curve.
d. There would be a downward movement along a given long-run Philips curve.
b
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a. compare the cost of the typical basket of goods purchased in 2005 with the cost of the typical basket of goods purchased in 2010. b. calculate the increase in the cost of the typical market basket purchased in 2005. c. calculate the increase in the cost of the typical market basket purchased in 2010. d. take the typical basket of goods purchased in 2007, and compare the costs of that basket in 2005 and 2010.
If firms in an industry are generating knowledge that other firms can use without paying for it, this industry is characterized by
A) social costs that exceed private costs. B) social benefits that exceed private benefits. C) social costs that exceed social benefits. D) private benefits that exceed social benefits. E) social benefits that undermine private benefits.
Expressing the U.S. federal budget deficit as a percentage of Gross Domestic Product (GDP)
A) results in inflation-adjusted revenue and expenditure numbers. B) helps us understand the size of the deficit relative to the size of the economy. C) was useful through the 1980s, but is no longer helpful because both the deficit and real Gross Domestic Product (GDP) have grown so large. D) is only useful if the budget deficit is rising at an annual rate of more than 4 percent.
Common ownership of resources:
a. is a system by which the government allocates the rights to harvest renewable resources. b. may fail to ensure that harvesting of renewable resources does not exceed the maximum sustainable yield. c. is an environmentally effective method of internalizing an externality problem in renewable resource conservation. d. efficiently controls the harvest of renewable resources. e. usually helps in preventing market failures.