Which of the following would be of particular interest to a microeconomist?
a. The price of fruit the typical household consumes.
b. The nation's inflation rate.
c. The nation's rate of unemployment.
d. The budget of the national government.
e. The growth of the economy.
a
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John is trying to decide how to divide his time between his job as a stocker in the local grocery store, which pays $7 per hour for as many hours as he chooses to work, and cleaning windows for the businesses downtown. He makes $2 for every window he cleans. John is indifferent between the two tasks, and the number of windows he can clean depends on how many hours he spends cleaning in a day, as shown in the table below:Hours PerDay CleaningWindowsTotal Numberof WindowsCleaned0017211314416517A second hour cleaning windows will yield additional earnings of ________.
A. $8 B. $7 C. $14 D. $2
Because skills are costly to obtain, at a given wage rate, the
A) quantity demanded of high-skilled labor is less than the quantity demanded of low-skilled labor. B) quantity demanded of high-skilled labor is greater than the quantity demanded of low-skilled labor. C) quantity supplied of high-skilled labor is less than the quantity supplied of low-skilled labor. D) quantity supplied of high-skilled labor is greater than the quantity supplier of low-skilled labor.
The steeper the LM curve
A) the more effective is monetary policy. B) the less effective is monetary policy. C) the greater is the interest-sensitivity of investment. D) the greater is the interest-sensitivity of the money supply.
To prevent bank runs and the consequent bank failures, the United States established the ________ in 1934 to provide deposit insurance
A) FDIC B) SEC C) Federal Reserve D) ATM