Chapter 01 Limits, Alternatives, and Choice Multiple Choice [QUESTION] 1. Economics is a social science that studies how individuals, institutions, and society may: A) Expand the amount of productive resources available to them B) Attain a minimum level of unemployment C) Best use scarce resources to achieve the maximum satisfaction of economic wants D) Reduce the prices of goods and services to consumers Answer: C Topic: The Economic Perspective Difficulty: 2 Medium Learning Objective: 01-01 Bloom’s: Level 1 Remember AACSB: Analytic [QUESTION] 2. The key economic concept that serves as the basis for the study of economics is: A) Inflation B) Unemployment C) Money D) Scarcity Answer: D Topic: The Economic …show more content…
The idea in economics that "there is no free lunch" means that: A) Businesses would go bankrupt if they offered free lunches B) The thought of a free lunch is often better than the reality of consuming it C) There are opportunity costs involved when scarce resources are used up for free lunches D) Businesses use free lunches to attract customers but this advertising practice is inefficient Answer: C Topic: The Economic Perspective Difficulty: 2 Medium Learning Objective: 01-01 Bloom’s: Level 2 Understand AACSB: Analytic [QUESTION] 7. Opportunity cost is best defined as: A) Marginal cost minus marginal benefit B) The time spent on an economic activity C) The value of the best forgone alternative D) The money cost of an economic decision Answer: C Topic: The Economic Perspective Difficulty: 1 Easy Learning Objective: 01-01 Bloom’s: Level 1 Remember AACSB: Analytic [QUESTION] 8. Tammie makes $150 a day as a bank clerk. She takes off two days off work without pay to fly to another city to attend the concert of her favorite music group. The cost of transportation for the trip is $250. The cost of the concert ticket is $50. The opportunity cost of Tammie's attending the concert is: A)
Using the data and your own economic knowledge, assess the case for financing universities mainly through charging fees to their students.
THE UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS ECON1202/2291 QUANTITATIVE MEHODS A FINAL EXAMINATION SESSION 2 2008
Which of the following is not a requirement to become registered in PEO (Professional Engineers of Ontario)
Economic Development: Growth is associated with structural, social change and change in the important institutions of the economy.
a. What would shoppers see when they shopped in Wal-Mart and the other “big box” stores that sell so many imported items?
c. Establishments in the fertile crescents. Civilizations that can support large populations form independently in Mesopotamia, N.China, Meso-America (Central America). Areas best suited to primitive agriculture
1. NORMATIVE ECONOMICS—REPUBLICANS VERSUS DEMOCRATS Visit both the Republicans’ www.rnc.org and the Democrats’ www.democrats.org Web sites. Both parties address Healthcare and both address Energy policy, for example. (Democrats under “Issues”, Republicans under “Our Party”.) Compare and contrast their views on two such issues. Generally speaking, how much of the disagreement is based on normative economics compared to positive economics? Give an example of loaded terminology from each site.
As an employee of the World Bank, you have been asked to research 1 economic concern in a South American country and write a report on your findings.
What is the effect on the equilibrium price and equilibrium quantity of orange juice if the price of apple juice decreases and the wage rate paid to orange grove workers increases?
SABMiller and Diageo are two largest beer producer in Africa. ”SABMiller, if combined with its partnership with France's Castel Group, sells roughly 60% Africa’s beer by volume. Diageo’s also expands its operation successfully that Senator Keg, its supercheap beer, is also now number two most popular beers in Kenya. As these giant brewers monopolized Africa’s beer market, it can be said that the market has an oligopoly market structure, and both pursue identic operations, so the market can be labeled as competitive. The interdependence that is happening between both brewers makes the competition happens. As SABMiller produces Impala that is half price from its previous beer Manica, Diageo produces Senator Keg to balance it. Diageo
Henry Hazlitt’s book, Economics in one lesson, brings to perspective numerous topics that are mainstream issues in the economy today. His book breaks down in detail specific concepts that have their effects on the economy. Hazlitt explains topics such as war and the expenses, the tariff system, and productivity and the minimum wage laws.
In this way, the Fed manages price inflation in the economy. So bonds affect the U.S. economy by determining interest rates. This affects the amount of liquidity. This determines how easy or difficult it is to buy things on credit, take out loans for cars, houses or education, and expand businesses. In other words, bonds affect everything in the economy. Treasury bonds impact the economy by providing extra spending money for the government and consumers. This is because Treasury bonds are essentially a loan to the government that is usually purchased by domestic consumers. However, for a variety of reasons, foreign governments have been purchasing a larger percentage of Treasury bonds, in effect providing the U.S. government with a loan. This allows the government to spend more, which stimulates the economy. Treasury bonds also help the consumer. When there is a great demand for bonds, it lowers the interest rate.
6. NI is composed of a number of categories. What category makes up the largest portion of NI?
This research topic is significant to the current property market in Singapore and its sudden increased demand for houses despite the economic downturn, exploring deeper as to whether the government policies were the real influential causes to this boom in property demand. It has relevance to the economic concepts of demand and supply, elasticity, inflation and monopolistic competition. This topic is worthy of investigation because it is a hot media topic in Singapore, and is widely debated in the country because it’s the most expensive household asset.[2]
(ii) Government production at lower priceswe have a direct governmental influence on allocation because the government itself undertakes the responsibility of the production of the positive external good. supplies it at a lower price, in some cases free of charge