Economics section A

This is based on all choice questions from unit 1 of microeconomics. Most of these questions are from many different past papers. 

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Choice is an important element in the basic economic problem because
limited resources have alternative uses.
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A decision by the government to introduce and expansionary fiscal policy would be less likely to succeed in reducing unemployment if a country had
a high marginal propensity to import.
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If the short run aggregate supply curve is perfectly elastic, an increase in aggregate demand brought about by a rise in demand for exports is most likely to cause an increase in
the level of real national output.
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The level of capital investment spending by private sector businesses tends to vary ______ with interest rates and ______ with business confidence
negatively, positively
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Good X is an inferior good. A rise in consumers' income is likely to lead to:
A fall in demand and an fall in market price and quantity sold.
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The price of lasagne increase by 20% and as a result the demand for red wine falls by 5%, we can conclude from this information that
the two goods are weak complements.
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The price elasticity of supply of a product will depend on
the availability of factors of production.
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A multiple effect occurs when an initial change in government spending leads to a larger change in the level of
national income.
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There is an output gap when
national output is higher or lower than it would have been if the country had grown continuously at its trend rate of growth.
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An increase in imports of consumer goods is most likely to have been caused by a
fall in the exchange rate.
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Positive externalities exist when
private benefits are less than social benefits.
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When an economy operates on its production possibility frontier (PPF), it is
productively efficient.
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economics is primarily concerned with the study of
allocating scare resources to satisfy unlimited wants.
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In a market based economy the scarcity of factors of production means that
consumers must inevitably consider the opportunity cost of their choices.
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In economics it is generally assumed that the main objective of frma ia to
maximise total profits
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What are the two only free goods?
Sunlight and air.
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What are goods provided by the government for people who are deemed to need them called?
Merit goods.
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A Demerit good is:
seen as undesirable, over produced and over priced.
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What are the factors of production?
Capital, Labour, Land, Entrepreneur.
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What are the pure public goods?
Street lights, Flood defences and Lighthouses.
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Non- excludability is where:
no one can be excluded from the benefiting of a good.
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A decision by the government to introduce and expansionary fiscal policy would be less likely to succeed in reducing unemployment if a country had

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a high marginal propensity to import.

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If the short run aggregate supply curve is perfectly elastic, an increase in aggregate demand brought about by a rise in demand for exports is most likely to cause an increase in

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The level of capital investment spending by private sector businesses tends to vary ______ with interest rates and ______ with business confidence

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Good X is an inferior good. A rise in consumers' income is likely to lead to:

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