Explain briefly what will likely happen to society if it chooses to produce more capital goods and fewer consumption goods
What will be an ideal response?
Because capital goods enable society to produce larger quantities of consumption goods, giving up some consumption goods in exchange for more capital goods today will result in larger production of consumption goods in the future.
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a. a balanced budget. b. an increasing national debt. c. a declining budget surplus. d. a declining budget deficit. e. an increasing budget deficit.
If nations erect tariffs and quotas to restrict trade, what is likely to happen to predicted values of currencies drawn from the purchasing power parity theory?
a. They will be understated for tariffs and overstated for quotas. b. They will be overstated for tariffs and understated for quotas. c. They will be the correct values. d. They will be incorrect.
Assume that the central bank increases the reserve requirement. If the nation has low mobility international capital markets and a flexible exchange rate system, what happens to the GDP Price Index and net nonreserve-related international borrowing/lending in the context of the Three-Sector-Model?
a. The GDP Price Index falls, and net nonreserve-related international borrowing/lending becomes more negative (or less positive). b. The GDP Price Index rises, and net nonreserve-related international borrowing/lending becomes more negative (or less positive). c. The GDP Price Index falls, and net nonreserve-related international borrowing/lending becomes more positive (or less negative). d. The GDP Price Index and net nonreserve-related international borrowing/lending remain the same. e. There is not enough information to determine what happens to these two macroeconomic variables.
We measure a person's productive contribution in a market system by
A. the profit maximization theory of the firm. B. the egalitarian theory of wage determination. C. the marginal revenue product theory of wage determination. D. the marginal factor cost theory of the firm.