Test 1 Flashcards

(38 cards)

1
Q

Deiter went hungry for a month so that he could purchase a monkey. This decision is?

A

Efficient if Deiter values a monkey more than he values food for the month

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If one owns a unit of something, we measure its value by the?

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Least one is willing to accept in order to give up the unit

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3
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In making a policy decision, if we value life as being infinite, we would be justified in?

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All of the above

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4
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The cost of obtaining a college education includes?

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Wages that must be given up while one is in class

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5
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At an all you can eat pizzeria, you should?

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Eat until the marginal value of pizza is zero

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6
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Ramona’s pizza should produce the amount of pizza such that?

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The price of pizza is equal to the marginal cost

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7
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Which is true?

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The market creates a job if someone thinks the value of labor is at least as great as the cost of labor in a particular use

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The supply curve is?

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The marginal cost curve

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9
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If Ramona’s cost of making a pizza is $9, then the minimum she would accept to make that pizza is?

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$9

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If the price of gasoline is $3.50 and the government makes it illegal to charge more than $3.00, then?

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There will be a shortage of gas

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You economize and seek the highest value if you spend?

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Your money on yourself

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12
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Friedrich Hayek said?

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The dispute is about whether planning is done by the one or by the many

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13
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Economists have shown that voting behavior is similar to?

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Rooting for a sports team

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14
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Which does not play a part in promoting special interest funding?

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Efficiently producing valued goods

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15
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Indirect costs of regulation include?

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Output that is not produced because it is not profitable under the regulation

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16
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For a company that makes both large and small cars, CAFE standards cause the social gain from production of?

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Large cars and small cars to fall

17
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Which group’s supports for ethanol regulations has decreased?

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Environmentalists

18
Q

With regulatory capture?

A

The economy is less stable

19
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A new federal law requires that health professionals add the names and identifications of mentally ill people to a database to prevent them from buying weapons to harm others? An unintended consequence of this law is to?

A

Fewer mentally ill people seek treatment because they do not wish to be added to a federal database, making it more likely that they will harm others

20
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The social losses in the gasoline industry due to the ethanol laws occur because?

A

Less gasoline is produced than without the mandate

21
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Money?

A

Is a means of exchanging the things that make up the true wealth of a nation

22
Q

In order to manufacture the fully functional iPhones that people use today, we need only?

A

None of the above

23
Q

Bastiat says?

A

Private firms would distribute transported grain first to areas where they could make the most profit

24
Q

We desire the economy to advance so that we can?

A

Have as much output as possible with as little effort as possible

25
The production possibilities frontier model assumes that?
None of the above
26
Because cows are better at producing milk than producing missiles, the production possibilities frontier is?
A bowed outward downward sloping line
27
The way that an economy chooses a point on the production possibilities frontier is?
By consumers and producers weighing costs and values in a market economy and by command in an authoritarian economy
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Points inside the production possibilities frontier represent combinations?
Of goods, such that there are unemployed resources
29
For individuals and for entire economies, having more income and wealth depend on having?
Higher quality resources
30
Motivations to trade do not include?
Differences in the amount of money
31
In order to produce 3 fish and 24 coconuts?
None of the above
32
Because we trade for resources?
Consumers and producers benefit
33
Bastiat's example shows that for those who want trade surpluses, the best thing that can happen is?
Ships carrying exports sink
34
The exchange rate is?
The price of one country's currency, in terms of another
35
Helena exports her music all around the globe. She prefers?
A weak dollar
36
In Bastiat's story of Mr. Protectionist, who is the enemy?
French blacksmiths
37
When we place an import quota on a good?
Domestic consumers lose and there is an overall loss to society
38
In Petition of the Candlemakers, Bastiat describes a foreign competitor?
That will never import anything from us