People who complete college provide a signal to employers about their skills and thus face better employment opportunities than equally skilled high school graduates. This is called:
A. the learning effect of a college education.
B. the signaling effect of a college education.
C. the discriminatory effect of a college education.
D. None of these
Answer: B
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The economist who proposed that, "Inflation is always and everywhere a monetary phenomenon" was
A) John Maynard Keynes. B) John R. Hicks. C) Milton Friedman. D) Franco Modigliani.
In its most ideal form, a price system allows
A) firms to act in such a way that they eliminate scarcity. B) consumers to satisfy all their wants. C) resources to move from lower-valued uses to higher-valued uses through voluntary exchange. D) government policy makers to allocate resources to the uses which they consider to be in the best interests of society.
If a binding price floor were placed in the market in the graph shown:
A. quantity demanded would exceed quantity supplied.
B. quantity supplied would exceed quantity demanded.
C. the demand curve would have to shift.
D. the supply curve would have to shift.
Refer to the four graphs above. Select the graph that best shows the changes in demand and supply in the market specified in the following situation: the market for corn, if gasoline producers use more ethanol from corn and good weather during the growing season yields a bumper harvest.
What will be an ideal response?