List five major sources of income inequality
What will be an ideal response?
1. differences in productivity
2. increasing globalization
3. improvements in technology
4. the increasing prominence of winner-take-all tournament-style markets
5. rent-seeking by the incumbent wealthy
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According to the Keynesian approach, a decrease in taxes
A) will decrease consumption, as the government will have to spend less. B) will not impact consumption, as most consumption is autonomous. C) will increase consumption exactly by the amount of the taxes. D) will increase consumption by an amount of less than the change in taxes.
A common resource is used efficiently if
A) the output is maximized. B) marginal social benefit equals marginal social cost. C) marginal private benefit equals marginal private cost. D) marginal social benefit is maximized.
In the Taylor rule, does the target for the federal funds rate respond differently for a recession caused by a decrease in aggregate demand and for a recession caused by a decrease in short-run aggregate supply? Explain whether there is or is not a
difference in how the target for the federal funds rate changes.
Marginal cost is the
A. change in total cost resulting from the purchase of one more unit of the variable input. B. change in total cost resulting from the production of one more unit of output. C. difference between total fixed cost and total variable cost. D. difference between total cost and total expenditure.