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The concept of “interdependence of markets” can refer to the interdependence between:

A. two or more factor markets
B. goods and factor markets
C. goods markets
 D. all of the above
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Economics

The PPF can be used to illustrate:

A. the principle of opportunity costs and increasing opportunity costs
 B. the distinction between micro and macroeconomics
 C. efficient, infeasible and inefficient production combinations
 D. all of the above
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Economics

Rational choice or rational decision-making involves

A. comparing the net benefit of a choice with the total net benefit foregone of all thealternatives combined
 B. weighing up total costs and total benefits associated with a decision
 C. weighing up m arginal costs and marginal benefits associated with a decision
 
D. all of the above.
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The former Soviet Union was an example of:

A. a planned economy
 B. free-market/capitalism
C. dictatorship
D. a mixed economy
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Economics

Positive statements are:

A. value judgments
 B. verifiable or testable
 C. statements in the affirmative
D. good statements
 
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Economics

Laborator y (or controlled) experiments cannot be performed in economics because

A. of resource scarcity.
 B. economics is a natural science.
C. of the difficulty of distinguishing between normative and positive statements.
D. economics is a social science.
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Economics

The phrase ‘ceteris paribus’ is best expressed as

A. ‘all else equal.’
B. ‘everything affects everything else.
C. ‘scarcity is a fact of life.’
D. ‘there is no such thing as a free lunch.’
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Economics

What lies is at the heart of the allocation of goods and services in a free-market economy?

A. Concerns of equity or equal distribution among individuals.
B. The order or command of the ruling government or dictator.
C. The wishes of consumers in the market.
D. The price mechanism
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Economics

Periods of “less than full employment” of resources correspond to

A. points on the ppf.
B. points outside the ppf.
C. either points inside or outside the ppf.
D. points inside the ppf
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Economics

A graph showing all the combinations of goods and services that can be produced if all ofsociety’s resources are used efficiently is a

A. demand curve.
B. supply curve
 C. production possibility frontier
 .D. circular-flow diagram.