Question: Shortly before the UK devalued the pound sterling in 1968, Prime Minister Harold Wilson was heard to remark that the first time a Labour prime minister devalued the pound, the party was out of power for 14 year ...
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Question: 1. Reflect upon the IT strategies that are used to encourage economic development. Select two strategies and discuss how economic factors affect the strategies that a government may use to facilitate economic d ...
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Question: Imagine the president of China, Xi Jinping. hires you to advise him on how to increase the country's economic growth rate back up to about 9% annually from its current annual growth rate of about 6.5%. What wou ...
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Question: Think of the commonality and consistencies of where consumers spend their money in a recession and during the holiday season. What determinations can you make about purchases? Is there a pattern here? The respo ...
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Question: The producer of a movie has sole rights to make DVDs of it and is thus a monopolist in that particular movie. Assume that Blockbuster Video also has a near-monopoly on retail rentals. The producer could charge ...
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Question: A local business owner tells you economics is wrong because people do not respond to incentives. She tells you that she increased all of her employees' pay by 10 percent and they did not work any harder. Is her ...
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Question: In 1998, Japanese real GDP fell 2½% in spite of a sharp decline in interest rates and massive increases in government spending. In terms of the IS/LM diagram, what factors must have shifted to offset the moneta ...
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Question: Psychologist, Beverly Daniel Tatum summarizes the impact of institutionalized racial policies like FHA loan practices: "To the child of that parent, it looks like, ‘My father worked hard, bought a house, passed ...
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Question: The supply and demand functions for natural gas from 1950 to 2007 are followings. Qs= 0,02 + 0,7Pg + 0,045Po + 0,06I Qd= 148,82 -1,8 Pg + 0,069Po + 0,05I Where Pg is the price of natural gas, Po is the price of ...
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Question: The country of Leverett is a small open economy. Suddenly, a change in world fashions makes the exports of Leverett unpopular. a. What happens in Leverett to saving, investment, net exports, the interest rate, ...
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