What causes the production possibility curve to be bowed out?
What will be an ideal response?
A bowed production possibility curve indicates increasing opportunity costs. To produce more of one good, resources must be taken away from producing another good. These resources often are specialized. This implies that the resources cannot move easily from producing one good to another. The more of a good that is produced, the more it must use resources that are better suited for the other good, and the extra costs of producing another unit of the good increase.
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Economists Cade Massey and Richard Thaler analyzed whether teams in the National Football League distributed salaries efficiently. Massey and Thaler found that
A) both rookie players and veteran players are paid less than the value of their marginal products because of the lack of competition among teams. B) veteran players who sign as free agents are paid more relative to their marginal products than rookie players selected in the first round of the draft. C) rookies are paid salaries greater than their marginal products; veteran players are paid salaries less than their marginal products. D) the first few players selected in first round of the NFL draft are paid much higher salaries relative to their marginal products than players drafted later in the first round.
The text lists 5 key provisions of the Dodd-Frank Act. What are those 5 key provisions?
What will be an ideal response?
Refer to Figure 11.2. Assume the economy is in equilibrium at 1, where real GDP equals potential GDP, and then the economy experiences a positive demand shock. Other things equal, the positive demand shock is best represented by a(n)
A) movement up along the Phillips curve. B) movement down along the Phillips curve. C) upward shift of the Phillips curve. D) downward shift of the Phillips curve.
"As soon as a mayor announced his/her 'get tough on crime' policy on New Year's day, criminals got scared and the crime rate went down." Suppose that the lower crime rate was actually caused by freezing cold temperatures in January?it was just too cold for anybody to be out robbing other people. Which fundamental hazard of the economic way of thinking did the mayor make?
a. believing that what's good for one person is good for the whole group (the fallacy of composition) b. failing to take into account the benefits of crime (the payoff fallacy) c. believing that association is the same as causation d. failing to understand the difference between positive and normative economics.