The fraction of each additional dollar of disposable income not spent on consumption is referred to as:
A. The money multiplier.
B. The MPC.
C. The MPS.
D. Fiscal stimulus.
C. The MPS.
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The marginal utility per dollar that Harold Stratton receives from oranges is greater than the marginal utility per dollar Harold receives from pears. To maximize his utility, what should Harold do?
A) He should buy fewer pears and more oranges. B) He should buy fewer oranges and more pears. C) He should reduce his consumption of both oranges and pears so that he can buy a greater variety of goods. D) He should acquire more income so that he can afford to buy more oranges and pears.
The River Rouge plant was built by the Ford Motor Company in the 1920s to produce the company's Model A car. Which of the following is evidence that the River Rouge plant suffered from diseconomies of scale?
A) Model A cars made at the River Rouge plant failed to earn a profit. Ford reduced the average cost of the Model A by cutting its employees' wages. B) Model A cars made at the River Rouge plant failed to earn Ford a profit. Ford eventually constructed smaller plants to make the Model A at a lower average cost. C) Model A cars made at the River Rouge plant failed to earn a profit because the price of steel used to manufacture the Model A rose when workers in the steel industry went on strike. D) Despite an expensive advertising campaign the Model A did not earn the company a profit.
In game theory, a Nash equilibrium is defined as:
A) the dominant strategy of each player. B) a set of strategies for which all players are choosing their best strategy, given the actions of the other players. C) the set of strategies that result in the maximum payoff to each player. D) the set of strategies chosen when the players in a game can cooperate with each other.
If the cross price elasticity of demand between two goods is positive, then the two goods are
A) substitutes. B) complements. C) independent. D) unrelated.