The CPI market basket
A) weights the goods and services according to the budget of an average urban household.
B) determines the best possible way of taxing the average urban household.
C) determines how the spending patterns of the average urban household change from month to month.
D) determines how spending patterns change from urban household to urban household.
E) changes from one month to the next in order to calculate the CPI.
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Any change that shifts the supply curve outward to the right and does not affect the demand curve will lower the equilibrium price and raise the equilibrium.
Answer the following statement true (T) or false (F)
Which of the following is not a basic assumption underlying the theory of consumer behavior?
A) Consumers prefer more to less. B) Consumer preferences depend on the amounts of goods they consume as well as the amounts being consumed by other consumers. C) Goods are continuously divisible, that is, consumers can always purchase one more or one less unit of a good. D) Consumers have well-behaved preferences, that is, preference orderings are complete.
The DD schedule shows
A) interest rate and output pairs for which aggregate demand equals aggregate output. B) exchange rate and output pairs for which aggregate demand equals aggregate output. C) exchange rate and output pairs for which aggregate supply equals aggregate output. D) interest rate and output pairs for which aggregate supply equals aggregate output. E) exchange rate and output pairs for which aggregate demand is greater than aggregate output.
When an economy operates efficiently,
a. the MRPs of every input into the production of a good are equal. b. marginal utility equals marginal cost for every good. c. the price of a good equals the sum of the marginal physical products of its inputs. d. All of the above are correct.