The role of prices in a market economy is to
a. make producers rich at the expense of consumers
b. replicate what society produced in the past
c. determine the allocation of resources
d. enforce what the government chooses
e. force consumers to pay for business profits
C
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A) about 6 months B) about 1 year C) about 18 months D) almost 2.5 years
The argument that ________ receives strong support from the innovative policy response to the recent financial crisis
A) rules can be too rigid B) discretionary policies are vulnerable to the time-inconsistency problem C) money is the sole source of fluctuations in aggregate demand D) changes in policies can change the coefficients in macroeconometric models
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A) q1 = (a - bq2 )/2b. B) q1 = (a - 2bq2 )/2b. C) q1 = a/b. D) q1 = a/2b.
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a. True b. False Indicate whether the statement is true or false