Scarcity is
A) a situation of shortage after a hurricane.
B) a permanent human condition relative to the nearly limitless nature of human desires.
C) represented by long lines at stores.
D) the same thing as poverty.
Answer: B
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a. the new budget line is parallel to and lies 10 units to the left of the old budget line. b. the budget line shifts up by 10 dollars, with no change in the slope. c. the vertical intercept of the budget line shifts up by $10, but the horizontal intercept remains unchanged. d. the slope of the budget line increases by 10 percent.
Who among the following individuals is not an underemployed or a discouraged worker?
a. A person employed part-time but willing to work full-time b. A homeless person who has not found work for a year and has given up looking for jobs c. A nuclear physicist unable to work because of illness d. A gourmet French chef working part-time at Burger King e. A 60-year-old professor who has stopped looking for a teaching job because schools consider him too old
Which of the following characterizes the IACs?
A. high per capita GDP growth and high population growth B. low per capita GDP growth and low population growth C. low per capital GDP growth and high savings rate D. low human capital investment
Fractional reserve banking is the system that
A. limits banks' activities from crossing state lines. B. allows banks not to insure their deposits. C. allows banks to keep smaller reserves than their deposits. D. allows banks not to join the Federal Reserve System.