Over the last 50 years, has the ratio of household production to gross domestic product in the United States increased or decreased? Consider the effect of the increased number of women working outside the home, and the effect of advances in
technology in household production such as microwaves, coffee makers, power tools, etc.
"Household production" refers to goods and services people produce for themselves. It is not clear whether the ratio of household production to gross domestic product has increased or decreased. More women working outside the home has decreased the ratio of household production to GDP, but the technological advances at home have allowed people to produce more household production in less time.
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Compared to the 1910-1960 period, during the past 50 years the severity of macroeconomic fluctuations has
a. increased. b. decreased. c. changed little. d. increased, but the general level of prices has been more stable.
You go to a carnival in town intending to purchase rides for your children. When you get there they have an offer where everyone's first two rides are free. They obviously hope that the free rides will end up making them more money in the long run than if they charged for all rides. First, show on an indifference curve and budget line graph a solution that would make the free rides a bad idea for the company. Then, on a second graph, show a possible situation that would make the giveaway a success that should be repeated.
What will be an ideal response?
All of the following are true regarding perfectly competitive price determination EXCEPT
A) the market price is determined by the interactions among all buyers (households) and firms. B) the individual firm takes the market price as given. C) the individual firm is known as a market price maker. D) the individual firm's marginal revenue curve is horizontal at the market price.
If the opportunity cost of producing extra units of one good (expressed in terms of the amount of another good given up) remains constant, then the shape of the production possibilities frontier is
A. a vertical line. B. an upward-sloping line. C. a straight horizontal line. D. a straight downward-sloping line.