If the tax cost of this proposed project is $300 per person, a majority vote will:
Answer the question on the basis of this table showing the marginal benefit that a particular public project will provide to each of the three members of a community. No vote trading is allowed.
A. defeat this project and resources will be underallocated to it.
B. pass this project and resources will be allocated efficiently.
C. pass this project and resources will be underallocated to it.
D. defeat this project and resources will be overallocated to it.
C. pass this project and resources will be underallocated to it.
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The equilibrium real interest rate is 5 percent. If the real interest rate is
A) anything other than 5 percent, the supply of loanable funds curve and/or the demand for loanable funds curve will shift to move the real interest rate to 5 percent. B) 6 percent, the demand for loanable funds curve will shift rightward as firms enter the market to borrow at the lower rate. C) 2 percent, there is a shortage of loanable funds. D) 8 percent, there is a surplus of loanable funds. E) 3 percent, then the supply of loanable funds curve will shift leftward as new savers enter the market.
The table above shows the exchange rates between various currencies and the U.S. dollar. Between 2015 and 2016, the U.S. dollar ________ against the Euro and ________ against the Japanese yen
A) depreciated; depreciated B) appreciated; appreciated C) appreciated; depreciated D) depreciated; appreciated
When all resources used in production are not perfectly substitutable,
a. specialization does not lead to greater production b. the economy or firm is producing at a point outside of its production possibilities frontier c. there will be constant opportunity costs d. the production possibilities frontier will be concave (bowed outward) e. the economy or firm will only produce one good in equilibrium
One factor that explains the short-run trade-off between inflation and unemployment is labor contracts that fix wages for an extended period of time
a. True b. False Indicate whether the statement is true or false