National Economy Professor Heinowitz 1.) Explain why increasing opportunity cost is not caused by increasing inefficiency. 2.) Explain why the following statement is incorrect: “Income and output are two entirely different things.” 3.) Explain how Keynes’ economic principles and Supply-side economics are related. 4.) How do externalities determine the extent of the involvement of government in the national economy? 5.) Support or refute the following statement: “Since business investment
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Chapter 5: The Open Economy 1. In a small open economy‚ if exports equal $20 billion‚ imports equal $30 billion‚ and domestic national saving equals $25 billion‚ how much are net capital outflows? Answer:–$10 billion NX = capital flows = 20-30 = -$10b 2. In Micronesia‚ which is a small open economy‚ if exports equal $5 billion and imports equal $7 billion‚ what is Micronesia’s trade balance? Answer: Micronesia has a deficit trade
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Name___________________________________ ESSAY. Write your answer in the space provided or on a separate sheet of paper. 1) For each of the following changes‚ show the effect on the demand curve and state what will happen to market equilibrium price and quantity in the short run. a. Consumers expect that the price of the good will be higher in the future. b. The price of a substitute good rises. c. Consumer incomes fall‚ and the good is normal. d. Consumer incomes fall‚ and the good
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Economy of Japan The development of Japan’s economy has started in the Meiji era. The rulers of that age wanted to create a capitalist market economy from the example of America and Britain. Japanese people travelled to abroad to learn while instructors came from the West to Japan to teach. The majority of today’s enterprises have established at that time. Japan has become the most developed country in Asia. Japan had the second largest economy till 2010 but China has overtaken Japan as the world’s
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Slavery and the Economy Over the course of history‚ historians have viewed slavery as an immoral and unjustifiable institution. At the beginning of the antebellum period‚ around 700‚000 slaves were unjustly imported and sold into slavery. New land discovered in America was seen as profitless and pointless without an inexpensive source of labor. By the end of this historical time period‚ that number increased to over 4‚000‚000 slaves brought into the United States. The institution of slavery helped
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Green Chemistry Institute Atom Economy Page 1 American Chemical Society --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- CLEANING UP WITH ATOM ECONOMY By Kathryn E. Parent‚ k_parent@acs.org Introduction Cleaning up the environment and‚ more importantly‚ preventing pollution are important issues in today’s world. The theme for the 2002 National Chemistry Week is “Chemistry Keeps Us Clean.” While the chemical industry is traditionally
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The Philippines is located in South East Asia and the Philippines economy has been industrialized in the recent times. In terms of the purchasing power parity it ranked 24th according to the World Bank. The sectors that are of key importance in the Philippines Economy are agriculture‚ industry and mining each of which can be detailed under the following heads; Agricultural sector contributes about 17.1% of the GDP‚ Industrial Sector contributes 18.1% in the GDP. “The Gross Domestic product (GDP)
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increase trend. In different countries have different reasons for these situations. In Greece‚ the main reason lead to the debt increase is high social welfare; the government needs more funds so they issue a large number of debentures. These debentures cause a big financial burden and lead the debt crisis broke out. The social welfare is also one of reason for debt growth in US; another main reason for debts and deficit increase is because US takes many military operation and some counter-terrorism
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States has one of the world’s largest economy. The GDP is valued at $17.914 trillion dollars! (World Bank)2 So how can one of the world’s largest economies belong to a country that has an increasing gap between rich and poor? Simple‚ the way it is run! The US government has lost control of and has virtually stopped regulating our economy. We have allowed our jobs to be outsourced in the name of profit. Politicians have allowed big business to run not only our economy‚ but our government. According to
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SECTORS OF ECONOMY The three-sector theory is an economictheory which divides economies into three sectors of activity: extraction of raw materials (primary)‚ manufacturing (secondary)‚ and services (tertiary). It was developed by Colin Clark and Jean Fourastié. According to the theory‚ the main focus of aneconomy’s activity shifts from the primary‚ through the secondary and finally to the tertiary sector. Fourastié saw the process as essentially positive‚ and in The Great Hope of the Twentieth
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