Category: Introduction To Economics

Foreign trade ?

A. increase the scarcity of resources.
B. makes a country more equitable.
C. allows a country to have a greater variety of products at a lower cost than if it tried to produce everything to home.
D. None of these

Which of the following statements is true about a market economy ?

A. With a large enough computer, central planners could guide production more efficiently than markets.
B. Market participants act as if guided by an invisible hand to produce outcomes that maximize social welfare
C. The strength of a market system is that it tends to distribute resources evenly across consumers.
D. Taxes help prices communicate costs and benefits to producers and consumers.

The Phillips curve shows that ?

A. the business cycle has been eliminated
B. an increase in inflation temporarily increases unemployment.
C. inflation and unemployment are unrelated in the short run.
D. a decrease in inflation temporarily increases unemployment.
E. none of these