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Which of the following expresses the most nearly correct cause-effect explanation?
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A. Scarcity implies that choices have to be made; when people make choices they incur costs.
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B. When people make choices, they incur costs, which creates scarcity.
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C. Because people incur costs, they will make choices, which leads to scarcity.
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D. Scarcity implies that costs will be made and choices regretted.
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Which statement is correct?
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A. Economic theories cannot be tested.
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B. Economic theories do not need to be tested.
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C. Economic theories are abstractions from reality.
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D. Economic theories are always true in the real world.
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A. C. Economic theories are abstractions from reality. -
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A three-word synonym for the term ceteris paribus is
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a. “nothing else changes.”
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B. “in my opinion.”
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C. “it is proved.”
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D. “under this assumption.”
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A. a. “nothing else changes.” -
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Economists use the ceteris paribus assumption in order to
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A. make their analyses easier for them to conduct.
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b. designate what they believe is the correct relationship between two variables.
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c. explain why people sometimes consume more of a good when its price rises.
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D. explain why those things that come first do not necessarily cause those things that come later.
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A. b. designate what they believe is the correct relationship between two variables. -
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The study of an economy’s price level is explicitly a part of
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A. macroeconomics.
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B. microeconomics.
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c. positive economics.
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D. normative economics.
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A. A. macroeconomics. -
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Which of the following is a positive economic statement?
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A. We should raise the minimum wage in order to provide a decent wage for more people.
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B. Consumers bought fewer cars when the relative price of cars increased.
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c. The budget deficit has been declining in recent years.
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d. b and c
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Deciding at the margin is __________ an all-or-nothing decision.
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A. consistent with
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B. inconsistent with
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C. the same as making
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D. conditioned upon making
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A. B. inconsistent with -
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“If you hadn’t gone to dinner with your friends, you would have stayed home and “surfed” the Internet.” It follows that
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a. surfing the Internet is the opportunity cost of having dinner with your friends.
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B. the price of having dinner with your friends is more than the price you would have had to pay to surf the Internet.
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C. the opportunity cost of having dinner with your friends is lower than the opportunity cost of surfing the Internet.
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D. it is less costly to surf the Internet than to have dinner with your friends.
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A. a. surfing the Internet is the opportunity cost of having dinner with your friends. -
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The economist says, “The data show that interest rates rose soon after the budget deficit increased in size. This proves that a rising budget deficit causes higher interest rates.” This economist should
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A. be believed, because the evidence supports what he says.
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B. not be believed, because he has committed the fallacy of composition.
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C. not be believed, because he has assumed that association is causation, and this is not necessarily true.
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D. not be believed, because while he says the data support his contention, he hasn’t cited the source of the data.
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A. C. not be believed, because he has assumed that association is causation, and this is not necessarily true. -
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There is no such thing as a free lunch is a saying that expresses the idea that
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A. opportunity costs are incurred whenever a choice is made.
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B. association is not necessarily causation.
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C. the fallacy of composition is responsible for many errors in economic thinking.
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D. food is very expensive these days because of inflation.
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