When indifference curves are downward sloping, the marginal rate of substitution is usually constant
a. True
b. False
Indicate whether the statement is true or false
False
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Real GDP is $9 trillion in the current year and $8.6 trillion in the previous year. The economic growth rate between these years has been
A) 5.67 percent. B) 4.65 percent. C) 10.31 percent. D) 7.67 percent. E) $0.4 trillion.
Japanese exports are heavily concentrated in
A) agricultural products such as rice. B) natural resource products such as coal. C) manufactured products including motor vehicles. D) Both A and C.
A firm has two plants, one in the United States and one in Mexico, and it cannot change the size of the plants or the amount of capital equipment. The wage in Mexico is $5. The wage in the U.S. is $20
Given current employment, the marginal product of the last worker in Mexico is 100, and the marginal product of the last worker in the U.S. is 500. a. Is the firm maximizing output relative to its labor cost? Show how you know. b. If it is not, what should the firm do?
Which of the following is true? The federal government's budget
a. was always in surplus until the 1980s b. is in deficit now but has been in surplus in most of the past 40 years c. has been virtually perfectly balanced for the past 5 years d. deficit has averaged around zero for the last several decades e. switched from deficits to surpluses in the late 1990s