If all income is consumed in a year, then A) income next year will increase. B) investment spending will be zero. C) any investment spending will be done by the government. D) investment spending will increase. ANSWER B
Which of the following statements is NOT true about Say’s law? A) Markets would be regularly hit by severe shortages and surpluses. B) People produce more goods than they want for their own use only if they seek to trade them for other goods. C) Desired expenditures will equal actual expenditures. D) Surpluses will be […]
The interest rate effect operates through A) labor supply. B) government spending levels. C) the purchasing power of individuals’ checking accounts. D) credit markets by changing borrowing costs. ANSWER D
Say’s law implies that A) surpluses never occur. B) there will always be unemployment. C) surpluses or shortages are possible, but only for a short time. D) shortages never occur. ANSWER C
Many countries find it difficult to achieve economic growth. This is because economic growth A) depends on technological change and technological change depends on noneconomic factors such as the growth rate of scientific knowledge. B) is not understood well by economists, so it is difficult to advise policy makers on the best policies to pursue. […]
When a change in the price level causes a change in the purchasing power of currency, which then changes planned real expenditures at all income levels, it is called A) the real-balance effect. B) the open-economy effect. C) the substitution effect. D) the interest rate effect. ANSWER A
Economic growth tends to be higher in a country that A) has an open economy that encourages the rapid spread of technology. B) does not grant patents to investors. C) has a low saving rate. D) has an undeveloped system of property rights. ANSWER A
Savings are an example of A) a depreciation concept. B) a flow concept. C) a stock concept. D) an investment concept. ANSWER C
The classical economists assumed that A) wages and prices were inflexible, especially downward. B) government intervention in the economic system was necessary and helpful. C) monopoly was widespread in the economy. D) wages and prices were flexible. ANSWER D
________ is the study of how individuals, households, governments, and firms make choices and how those choices affect prices, the allocation of resources, and the well-being of other agents. A) Macroeconomics B) Monetary economics C) Microeconomics D) Growth theory ANSWER C