Economics Quiz 59

The social sciences lack ?

Central bank?s rate of lending to commercial banks is called ?

Of the World?s population what portion lives in developing countries ?

A movement along the demand curve to the left may be caused by ?

The total multiplier for the economy will reflect ?

An advocate of the classical model of the economy would claim that unemployment is created when the ____ is above its equilibrium level in the ______?

Most American cities have_________________?

Referring to the above table, the U.S balance of international indebtedness suggests that the U.S is a net ?

Barriers to entry do not include ?

According to the price/quality strategy matrix when a company overprices its product in relation to its quality it is considered to be using which type of strategy ?

Firms undertake multinational operations in order to ?

Country B has an absolute advantage in ?

Which of the following countries is known as sugar bowl ?

The quantity demanded of Pepsi has decreased. The best explanation for this is that ?

________ is the process of evaluating each market segment?s attractiveness and selecting one or more segments to enter?

In Africa many children are_________________?

Reaganomics was a radical shift in Policy aimed at direct tackling ?

Before ecological problems can be resolved what will probably need to happen ?

To adjust from Gross National Product to Net National Product ?

In 1990, during the Persian Gulf War, the U.S government extended generous terms to two middle-income countries by canceling or reducing their debt The two countries were ?

Which state is in the US produces the most blueberries ?

Which of the following workers would be most likely to find it more difficult to get a job after a rise in the minimum wage rate?

In determining salesforce size, when a company groups accounts into different size classes and then determines the number of salespeople needed to call on them the desired number of times it is called the ?

Malthus suggested the following as means of birth control________________?

Our standards of living is most closely related to ?

Objectivity means ?

Cash crops cover nearly _______ of the cropped areas?

Productivity can be increased by ?

Suppose the economy is initially in long-run equilibrium Then suppose there is an increase in military spending due to rising international tensions According to the model of aggregate demand and aggregate supply what happens to prices and output in the long run ?

Which of the following is NOT true of minority groups ?

in general a flatter demand curve is more likely to be ?

Which of the following is not a supply side measure ?

The theory that states that a country has a comparative advantage in the production of a product if that country is relatively well endowed with inputs used intensively in the production of that product is the?

The external benefits of using cars are ____ and the external costs are _____?

The Heckscher-Ohlin theorem states that a country will have comparative advantage in the good whose production in relatively intensive in the with which the country is relatively abundant ?

The appropriate tax rate to consider judging the vertical equity of a tax system is the ?

Which country has the largest area in the world ?

A attempts to limit outsourcing of jobs to foreigners by requiring that a minimum percentage of a product?s value must be produced domestically if that good is to be sold in the domestic market ?

Suppose two economists are arguing about policies that deal with unemployment. One economist says. The government could lower unemployment by one percentage point if it would just increase government spending by 50 billion dollars the other economist responds Nonsense and poppycock! If the government spent an additional 50 billion dollars it would reduce unemployment by only one tenth of one percent. and that effect would only be temporary! These economists ?

Craft unions differed from industrial unions in that they______________?

Violation of a folkway is considered ?

P2P is business slang. What does it refer ?

Which company holds the world record for having the maximum number of shareholders ?

Which exchange rate mechanism in intended to insulate the balance of payments from short-term capital movements while providing exchange rate stability for commercial transactions ?

The term ?constitutional? is reserved to describe________________?

Environmental depletion is the term used to mean that________________?

Advocates of the elitist approach believe that the ruling elite maintains its power by____________?

An ecological city is___________________?

When the financial system lacks the capability of making judgement about investment opportunities due to asymmetric information leading to potentially bad credit risks lending is subject to ?

Black volcanic soil and tropical climate is most suitable without excess rainfall for which crop ?