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The physical and mental talents people bring to production processes comprise the resourced called
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Which of the following is a microeconomics topic?
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What is the most prominent rationing device you will likely find at your campus bookstore?
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Cow, Oxen, or Rice
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Dollar Price
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Economists believe that people's wants are
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Decision making "at the margin" means making a choice based on __________ of a decision.
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At the optimal level of an activity, the activity's marginal benefit must exceed the marginal cost of the activity.
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Most states have instituted mandatory seatbelt laws to reduct traffic fatalities. An economist may point out that an unintended effect of these laws is
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an increase in traffic, increasing fatalities
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an increase in risky driving behavior, increasing fatalities.
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Which of the following statements is false?
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The question of how a tax change might impact U.S. economic output is most closely associated with the suds of
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microeconomics
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macroeconomics
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Opportunity cost is the ______________ alternative forfeited when a choice is made.
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least likely valued
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most highly-valued
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Scarcity is defined as the condition in which
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A good provides __________ and a bad provides __________.
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utility; disutility
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disutility; utility
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Which of the following statements is false?
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To an economist, the resource capital consists of produced goods that can be turned into unproduced goods.
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To an economist, the resource capital consists of unproduced goods that can be turned into produced goods.
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Every time you make a _________, you incur a (an) _________.
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decision; choice
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choice; opportunity cost
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The ____________ the opportunity cost of doing something, the ____________ likely a person will do that something.
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What does it mean if a person makes a "decision at the margin"?
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What is likely to be an unintended effect of a rise in the minimum wage?
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The student whose study habits are illustrated here will maximize the net benefits of studying when she has studied
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Refer to this exhibit. If the student whose study habits are illustrated here is currently studying for 8 hours she should
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increase the number of hours she is studying because the marginal benefits for 8 hours will be more than the marginal cost of doing so.
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cut back on the number of hours she is studying because the marginal benefit of studying for 8 hours is less than the marginal cost of doing so.
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Which of the following is not one of the four broad categories of resources?
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If increasingly more units of good Y must be given up as each successive unit of good X is product, then the PPF for these two goods is
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Consider two points on the PPF: point A, at which there are 50 oranges and 100 apricots, and point B, at which there are 51 oranges and 98 apricots. If the economy is currently at point B, the opportunity cost of moving to point A is
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The PPF between goods X and Y will be a downward-sloping