The tendency of hard-core Republicans to believe that all of the economic developments under the Obama presidency have been detrimental to the nation illustrates the:

A. Confirmation bias
B. Framing effect
C. Overconfidence effect
D. Availability heuristic


A. Confirmation bias

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Refer to A Negative Externality Problem. Absent any intervention, the competitive market will produce

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The return to schooling for society is higher than the return to schooling for the individual if

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Empirical evidence across numerous countries indicates that changes in the ________ are associated with nearly equiproportional changes in ________

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