During the postwar period, changing patterns of consumer demand led to changes in the distribution of jobs in the US economy. In particular, the income elasticity of demand for many consumer products was ____________ the income elasticity of demand for services, such as medical care and insurance
a. less than
b. greater than
c. equal to
a. less than
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The economy pictured in the figure has a(n) ________ gap with a short-run equilibrium combination of inflation and output indicated by point ________. 
A. recessionary; A B. recessionary; C C. recessionary; B D. expansionary; A
The yield to maturity for a discount bond is ________ related to the current bond price
A) negatively B) positively C) not D) directly
In the consumption function C = a + c(Y - T), the "marginal propensity to consume" appears as
A) a. B) c. C) cY. D) -cT. E) c(Y - T).
If one defines incremental cost as the change in total cost resulting from a decision, and incremental revenue as the change in total revenue resulting from a decision, any business decision is profitable if:
a. it increases revenue more than costs or reduces costs more than revenue b. it decreases some costs more than it increases others (assuming revenues remain constant) c. it increases some revenues more than it decreases others (assuming costs remain constant) d. all of the above e. b and c only