Special interest groups have a large incentive to be ________ about legislation that benefits them directly, whereas voters tend to be ________ regarding these issues.

A. rationally ignorant; irrationally ignorant
B. rationally informed; rationally ignorant
C. irrationally informed; rationally ignorant
D. rationally informed; irrationally informed


Ans: B. rationally informed; rationally ignorant

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A. Tax A B. Tax B C. Tax C D. None of these schedules are correct.

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If Country A opens up their corn market to trade with the rest of the world and the global price of corn is higher than the equilibrium price of corn in Country A, then Country A will ________ corn, which will ________ consumer surplus, ________

producer surplus, and ________ total surplus. A) import; increase; decrease; increase B) import; decrease; increase; increase C) export; increase; decrease; increase D) export; decrease; increase; increase E) export; decrease; increase; decrease

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When negative externalities are involved, the market is said to

A. fail, because it underproduces the good connected with the negative externality. B. fail, because it overproduces the good connected with the negative externality. C. succeed, because it produces the socially optimal quantity of the good connected with the negative externality. D. be "in optimum," because the equilibrium fully adjusts for the negative externality.

Economics

An increase in government spending causes the equilibrium level of aggregate output to ________ at any given interest rate and shifts the ________ curve to the ________, everything else held constant

A) rise; LM; right B) rise; IS; right C) fall; IS; left D) fall; LM; left

Economics