:- Consider a closed capitalist economy in which all productions is undertaken by100 firms and wages and profits are theonly 2 categories of incomes. Assume further that all wages are consumed while no consumption is made out of profits. The following informations is available for that economy for the year 2013.
- Each of 50 firms employed 100 people for 250 days in the year at a wage rate of rs 50 per day and 20 people for the year at a wage rate of rs 200 per month. The remaining 50 firms each employed 200 people for 250 days in the year at a wage rate of rs 50 per day.
- Gross fixed capital formation by each firm was rs 7 lakhs, depreciation for each was rs 1.2 lakhs, consumption of intermediates by each firm was rs 15 lakhs and change in stocks/inventories for each firm was zero.
Q 1- Determine on the basis of the above the economy’s gross and net value added in the 2013 and also the level of gross and net profits .
Q 2- State whether the following statements are true or false by giving reasons.
A:- The total sales of all firms in the economy cannot be determined from the given informations.
B:- The profits of each firms can be determined from the available information.