If an economy wants to increase its current level of investment, it must
A. sacrifice future consumption.
B. print more money.
C. offer more stocks and bonds to financial investors.
D. sacrifice current consumption.
Answer: D. sacrifice current consumption.
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Copyrights, which grant special privileges to artists, musicians, and writers
A) destroy property rights. B) expand property rights. C) neither destroy nor expand property rights because they are part of the Bill of Rights. D) both destroy and expand property rights.
Refer to Table 5.1. Ranked highest to lowest in expected income, the majors are
A) economics, accounting, English, mathematics, political science. B) mathematics, English, political science, accounting, economics. C) economics, accounting, mathematics, English, political science. D) English, economics, mathematics, accounting, political science. E) accounting, English, mathematics, political science, economics.
If a firm experiences increasing returns to scale at all levels of output: a. the slope of its long-run total cost curve is everywhere negative
b. the slope of its short-run average cost curve is everywhere negative. c. the slope of its long-run average total cost curve is everywhere negative. d. the slope of its production function is everywhere negative.
The law of diminishing return does not apply to a firm in the long run because in this phase:
a. all the factors of production are fixed. b. there are no fixed factors of production. c. there are some fixed and some variable factors of production. d. the producer is required to produce a fixed level of output. e. the producer can change the level of output only by changing the variable factors, fixed factors remaining unchanged.