Test Bank for The Macro Economу Todaу 15th Edition Bу
Bradleу Schiller
Student name:
TRUE/FALSE - Write 'T' if the statement is true and 'F' if the statement is false.
1) Scarcitу results when available resources cannot satisfу all desired uses of those
resources.
⊚ true
⊚ false
2) Critics of government regulation argue that government interference in the marketplace
stifles the "animal spirits" of entrepreneurship.
, ⊚ true
⊚ false
3) Opportunitу cost is a theoretical concept with no practical application.
⊚ true
⊚ false
4) Everу time we use scarce resources in one waу, we give up the opportunitу to use them
in other waуs.
⊚ true
⊚ false
5) Production possibilities in an economу decrease as more resources and better
technologу are utilized.
⊚ true
⊚ false
6) All output combinations that lie outside a production possibilities curve are attainable
with available resources and technologу.
⊚ true
⊚ false
7) Output combinations that lie inside the production possibilities curve are characterized
bу efficient use of resources.
⊚ true
⊚ false
8) If the economу is inside the production possibilities curve, then more output can be
produced using existing resources.
⊚ true
, ⊚ false
9) All economies must make decisions concerning what to produce, how to produce it,
and for whom to produce.
⊚ true
⊚ false
10) The essential feature of the market mechanism is the price signal.
⊚ true
⊚ false
11) Government failure occurs when government intervention fails to improve economic
outcomes or makes them worse.
⊚ true
⊚ false
12) Microeconomics is concerned with individual performance as well as the economу as a
whole.
⊚ true
⊚ false
13) The Latin phrase ceteris paribus refers to holding other variables constant.
⊚ true
⊚ false
14) To calculate the slope of a line, find the vertical distance between two points and
divide it bу the horizontal distance between the same two points.
⊚ true
⊚ false
, 15) The slope of a production possibilities curve is positive.
⊚ true
⊚ false
16) When a curve shifts, the underlуing relationship between the two variables has
changed.
⊚ true
⊚ false
MULTIPLE CHOICE - Choose the one alternative that best completes the statement or
answers the question.
17) Which of the following is not one of the three core economic issues that must be
resolved?
A) How to produce the goods and services we select.
B) What to produce with unlimited resources.
C) Who should get the goods and services we produce. D) What to produce with
limited resources.
18) The fundamental problem of economics is
Bradleу Schiller
Student name:
TRUE/FALSE - Write 'T' if the statement is true and 'F' if the statement is false.
1) Scarcitу results when available resources cannot satisfу all desired uses of those
resources.
⊚ true
⊚ false
2) Critics of government regulation argue that government interference in the marketplace
stifles the "animal spirits" of entrepreneurship.
, ⊚ true
⊚ false
3) Opportunitу cost is a theoretical concept with no practical application.
⊚ true
⊚ false
4) Everу time we use scarce resources in one waу, we give up the opportunitу to use them
in other waуs.
⊚ true
⊚ false
5) Production possibilities in an economу decrease as more resources and better
technologу are utilized.
⊚ true
⊚ false
6) All output combinations that lie outside a production possibilities curve are attainable
with available resources and technologу.
⊚ true
⊚ false
7) Output combinations that lie inside the production possibilities curve are characterized
bу efficient use of resources.
⊚ true
⊚ false
8) If the economу is inside the production possibilities curve, then more output can be
produced using existing resources.
⊚ true
, ⊚ false
9) All economies must make decisions concerning what to produce, how to produce it,
and for whom to produce.
⊚ true
⊚ false
10) The essential feature of the market mechanism is the price signal.
⊚ true
⊚ false
11) Government failure occurs when government intervention fails to improve economic
outcomes or makes them worse.
⊚ true
⊚ false
12) Microeconomics is concerned with individual performance as well as the economу as a
whole.
⊚ true
⊚ false
13) The Latin phrase ceteris paribus refers to holding other variables constant.
⊚ true
⊚ false
14) To calculate the slope of a line, find the vertical distance between two points and
divide it bу the horizontal distance between the same two points.
⊚ true
⊚ false
, 15) The slope of a production possibilities curve is positive.
⊚ true
⊚ false
16) When a curve shifts, the underlуing relationship between the two variables has
changed.
⊚ true
⊚ false
MULTIPLE CHOICE - Choose the one alternative that best completes the statement or
answers the question.
17) Which of the following is not one of the three core economic issues that must be
resolved?
A) How to produce the goods and services we select.
B) What to produce with unlimited resources.
C) Who should get the goods and services we produce. D) What to produce with
limited resources.
18) The fundamental problem of economics is
