Using resources in such a way as to maximize the production of goods and services is called ____________ .

a. efficiency.
b. underutilization.
c. thinking at the margins.
d. growth.


Ans: a. efficiency.

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a. nominal interest rate. b. real interest rate. c. implied interest rate. d. expected interest rate.

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A. 1900. B. 1913. C. 1929. D. 1946.

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