creating incentives to invest in capital and to be innovative.
The three stages of economic development include: - Ans>>Agricultural
stage, manufacturing stage, and the service sector stage.
In the factor market, households - Ans>>sell resources (labor)
Typically, nominal interest rates and anticipated inflation rates - Ans>>move
in the same direction
Which of the following does not appear to contribute to economic growth? -
Ans>>protectionism
a persistently declining price level resulting from economic growth and
unchanged aggregate demand is called - Ans>>secular deflation
which of the following best represents economic growth? - Ans>>an
outward, or equivalently, a rightward shift in the production possibilities
curve.
The term "creative destruction" refers to: - Ans>>the process by which new
jobs are created, and old ones destroyed.
The interest rate effects that helps explain the slope of the aggregate
demand curve arises because - Ans>>an increase in the price level boosts
interest rates, which discourages borrowing and hence reduces planned real
expenditures.
the faster the drop in the purchasing power of money, the faster the -
Ans>>increase in inflation rate
Which of the following describes an economy with full employment? -
Ans>>"The level of unemployment that corresponds to the normal friction in
the labor market."
Gross domestic product measures - Ans>>the total market value of final
goods and services produced within a nation's borders.
a major element of the concepts of inflation and deflation is - Ans>>their
dependence on average, rather than individual prices.
the study of development economics is to understand - Ans>>why some
countries are rich and others are poor.
the price level has been rising 5% a year for 20 years and is expected to
continue to do so. The nominal rate of interest is 8%. The real rate of interest
is - Ans>>3%