The law of increasing costs causes the production possibilities curve to be bowed outward from the origin
Indicate whether the statement is true or false
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The fraction of people who would like to be employed, but can't find work is called the:
A. average labor productivity rate. B. Participation rate C. inflation rate. D. unemployment rate.
When the production of a good has an external cost, the
A) marginal social cost curve lies below the marginal private cost curve. B) marginal social benefit curve lies above the marginal private benefit curve. C) equilibrium quantity in an unregulated, competitive market has a marginal social cost greater than the marginal social benefit. D) equilibrium quantity in an unregulated, competitive market has a marginal social cost less than the marginal social benefit.
Which of the following would be a consequence of substitution bias in the CPI?
A) Judges would award child support payments that would not adequately keep up with the true cost of inflation. B) Businesses would overcompensate employees for inflation when giving cost of living raises. C) Social Security payments would not adequately compensate retired workers for inflation. D) The inflation rate based on the CPI would underestimate the true level of inflation.
The emphasis on the greater incentives to produce, created by lower taxes, has come to be known as:
a. the trickle-down economics. b. the supply-side economics. c. the paradox of thrift. d. the permanent income hypothesis. e. monetarism.