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Which of the following is an example of a public good?
- A) Private healthcare
- B) National defense
- C) Cable television subscription
- D) Fast food restaurant
According to Classical economists, the aggregate demand is:
- A) Upward sloping.
- B) Vertical.
- C) Downward sloping.
- D) Horizontal.
According to classical economics, what is the role of government in the economy?
- A) It should control the production and distribution of goods and services.
- B) It should avoid intervention and allow the market to self-adjust.
- C) It should intervene to stabilize prices.
- D) It should actively manage the economy to achieve full employment.
Unemployment due to changing job or due to movement around the country is known as:
- A) Structural unemployment.
- B) Seasonal unemployment.
- C) Cyclical unemployment.
- D) Frictional unemployment.
Let the marginal propensity to consume equals 0.75. The value of multiplier in this case is:
- A) 1.33.
- B) 4.
- C) 0.25.
- D) 2.33.
Suppose the overall production of goods and services increases in a country because of technological improvement. This will shift:
- A) Aggregate supply curve to the left.
- B) Aggregate demand curve to the right.
- C) Aggregate supply curve to the right.
- D) Aggregate demand curve to the left.
The method which sums up all the incomes earned by all factors of production in the economy is known as:
- A) The spending method
- B) The value added method
- C) The expenditure method
- D) The factor income method
In Keynesian economics, a deflationary gap occurs when aggregate expenditures are:
- A) Less than aggregate production.
- B) Equal to aggregate production.
- C) Greater than aggregate production.
- D) Undetermined.
In Keynesian economics, if aggregate expenditures are less than aggregate output then:
- A) Aggregate output increases.
- B) Employment decreases.
- C) The price level rises.
- D) Inventories decrease.
Naima has just finished school and is waiting to report to his new job at the beginning of the month. Naima is considered to be:
- A) Cyclically unemployed.
- B) Structurally unemployed.
- C) Employed.
- D) Frictionally unemployed.
The relationship between saving and income is known as the:
- A) Saving function.
- B) 45-degree line.
- C) Consumption function.
- D) Disposable income.
Final goods are:
- A) For Direct use by the consumers.
- B) For further processing.
- C) Perishable goods only.
- D) Inferior goods only.
The investment demand curve shows the relationship between the levels of:
- A) Investment and interest rate.
- B) Investment and consumption.
- C) Consumption and interest rate.
- D) Investment and saving.
Rising inflation means that price level is rising at a(n):
- A) Fluctuating rate.
- B) Increasing rate.
- C) Constant Rate.
- D) Decreasing rate.
The theory regarding to the tradeoff between unemployment and inflation is established by:
- A) John Maynard Keynes
- B) Joseph Schumpeter
- C) Milton Friedman
- D) W.A. Phillips
Counting a product more than once in National income measurement is known as:
- A) Double counting.
- B) Counting error.
- C) Statistical error.
- D) Mathematical bias.
The saving function is:
- A) The ratio of a change in planned saving to a change in disposable income.
- B) The level of planned saving at different levels of disposable income.
- C) The level of planned saving for every change in disposable income.
- D) The ratio of total saving to total disposable income.
A reason why some economists basically ignore the short run is because they believe that the economy:
- A) Can only be graphed with a horizontal curve.
- B) Can only be graphed with a vertical curve.
- C) Has self-correcting mechanisms.
- D) Never needs correction.
In Keynesian economics, an inflationary gap results if aggregate expenditures are:
- A) Equal to aggregate production.
- B) Undetermined.
- C) Less than aggregate production.
- D) Greater than aggregate production.
The most commonly used index to calculate the inflation is:
- A) Producer Price Index (PPI)
- B) Consumer Price Index (CPI)
- C) GDP Deflator
- D) Wholesale Price Index (WPI)