Which of the following is an example of a normative statement?
A. The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act should not have been passed during the Great Recession.
B. An increase in alcohol taxes will reduce the number of drunk driving accidents.
C. Great Britain has fewer hospital beds per capita today than they did in 1948.
D. Unemployment soared to 25 percent during the Great Depression.
Answer: A
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A) there must be false causality between interest rates and housing prices. B) higher interest rates must cause low housing prices. C) a scatter diagram between interest rates and housing prices will show a negative relationshi
Stan owns a software design business. He obtained a bank loan to buy computer equipment for his business. He pays $1,000 per month for interest on the loan. He has 10 employees, each of whom is paid $4,000 per month
Because his business has been successful, next month he will increase employee wages to $5,000. If the revenue from his business remains at its current level, Stan is considering an addition to his office. Which of the following statements regarding Stan's business is false? A) The payments Stan makes to his employees are variable costs and explicit costs. B) The monthly payment Stan makes for his bank loan is a fixed cost. C) The time and effort Stan spends on his software design business is an implicit cost. D) The monthly payment Stan makes for his bank loan is an implicit cost.
In the above figure, the demand curve for Good A shifts from D1 to D2 in Graph A when the price of Good B changes from P1 to P2 in Graph B. We can conclude that
A) Good A and Good B are substitutes. B) Good A and Good B are complements. C) Good A is a normal good but Good B is an inferior good. D) Good A and Good B are unrelated.
Exchange rates in what is termed the "medium run"
a. will be altered by an economic upswing because consumers buy more goods including imports when disposable income goes up. b. will be unaffected by economic changes in personal income or consumption spending. c. will appreciate for a country having an economic boom when others are not. d. All of the above are correct.