Econ T/F Q

A point inside the production possibilities curve illustrates an economy with an unemployment problem.




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 An increase in the labor supply due to immigration would shift the production possibilities curve to the right.




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False 




 Ceterisparibus means all other things are assumed not to change.


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False 




 Economics is the social science concerned with the best use of scarce resources to achieve maximum satisfaction of economic wants.


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False 




 Economists always place the dependent variable on the vertical axis and the independent variable on the horizontal axis in all cases.


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 Entrepreneurship refers to a new college graduate who is looking for a job with a large company.




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False 




 If society has over-allocated resources to a particular activity, then the marginal benefits of the activity would be less than the marginal costs.




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False 




 Rational behavior implies that different people faced with similar choices will make the same decisions.




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False 




 The resource category called “capital” includes forests, mineral deposits, and water resources.




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 The study of economics is not useful for consumers because economic analysis focuses only on businesses and the government.


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False