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Macroeconomists are concerned about changes in the unemployment rate because these changes provide information about - Answer the state of the economy and the welfare of those who are unemployed If nominal GDP rises from $10 trillion to $12 trillion, while the GDP deflator rises from 2.0 to 2.2, the percentage change in real GDP is - Answer 9.1% Suppose a country using the Canadian system of measuring unemployment statistics has 100 million people, of whom 50 million are of working a...

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b) AD curve is downward sloping, and AS curve is upward sloping. Explanation: The aggregate demand curve slopes downward due to the wealth effect, interest rate effect, and exchange rate effect. The short-run aggregate supply curve slopes upward because of sticky wages, sticky prices, and misperceptions about the price level. - Answer Which of the following best describes the relationship between the aggregate demand (AD) and aggregate supply (AS) curves in the short run? a) AD curve is upwa...

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What are the four macroeconomic markets? What do they determine? - Answer Good and Services Market - Determines price level/inflation rate, amount of output produced by economy Labor Market - Determines wage rate, unemployment Money Market - Determines interest rate, price of bonds Exchange Market - Balance of payments, exchange rate What is GDP? - Answer Total dollar value of all final goods and services produced in a country during a year. Are intermediate or final goods calcula...

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how was economy from the post war boom - Answer THRIVING weekly wages doubled!, increased overseas trade, end of rationing, housing boom, employment at 1% what did Rab Butler provide the working class with in the post war boom - Answer 135 million in tax cuts - also boosted conservative prospects what was the bleeching report - Answer 1963 review on cutting public expendatures, initial closure of 30% of rail, left rural areas isolated and the giv was no longer in a place of econ...

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Combination Act - Answer Prevented workers from forming unions in the industrial revolution Modern liberal - Answer Believe that freedom cannot be achieved unless the government steps into assure that it does Classic liberal - Answer See government intervention as an infringement on the freedoms of individuals Keynesian economics - Answer AKA: demand side economics, consists of fiscal policy, when taxes are low the government should spend more, when taxes are high government...

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For a two-person, two-good economy in which one worker has an absolute advantage in the production of both goods, it will still be true in all cases that the less productive worker will still have a comparative advantage in producing something. a. True b. False - Answer a. True what is the first most basic lesson in economics? a: Prices are determined in markets by the interaction of supply and demand. b: Value is subjective; there is no such thing as an "objective" value of anyt...

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Scarcity - Answer society has limited resources and therefore cannot produce all the goods and services people wish to have Economics - Answer The study of how society manages its scarce resources, in attempt to satisfy unlimited wants Ten Principles of Economics - Answer 1. People face trade-offs 2. The cost of something is what you give up to get it 3. Rational people think at the margin 4. People respond to incentives 5. Trade can make everyone better off 6. Markets are us...

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Which of the following shifts the short-run, but not the long-run, aggregate supply right? a decrease in the natural rate of unemployment a decrease in the savings rate a decrease in the price level a decrease in the expected price level - Answer a decrease in the expected price level An Indonesian flour mill buys wheat from Canada and pays for it with rupiah. What are the effects of this transaction? a. Indonesian net exports increase, and Canadian net capital outflow decreases. b. ...

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