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Does it make any difference whether health-care expenditures are paid for by the consumer or by a third party (the government or an insurance company, for example)?

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Yes; consumers of health care will have a stronger incentive to economize when they are buying the service with their own money.

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During the last four decades, the share of health-care expenditures paid for by third parties (either the government or insurance companies)

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increased from approximately 45 percent in 1960 to over 85 percent in 2007.

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Economic theory indicates that the growth of subsidies to healthcare consumers and accompanying expansion in third-party payments will

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lead to higher healthcare prices.

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Have market forces failed in keeping healthcare costs under control?

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No; government regulations have undermined the operation of markets and created perverse incentives that have led to rising prices and soaring healthcare expenditures.

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Under the current structure of Medicare, economic theory indicates that the movement of the baby boom generation into the retirement phase of life during the years following 2011 will

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push both healthcare prices and expenditures upward.

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When health insurance is purchased primarily through one's employer,

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it is more costly for employees to switch jobs and move to areas where jobs are available.

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When the 2010 Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act is fully implemented, it will

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require all Americans to purchase health care insurance from either a private or government source.

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When the 2010 Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act is fully implemented, it will also

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set the prices (reimbursement rates) for more than 7,000 different medical procedures.

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Which of the following would help control the future costs of healthcare?

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allowing consumers to purchase healthcare insurance from out-of-state providers

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Which of the following would help control the future growth of healthcare prices and expenditures?

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an increase in the share of healthcare cost paid for either directly or from personal medical savings accounts

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A competitive capital market is important to society because it directs resources toward projects that

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create wealth.

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Compared to investing in physical capital, human capital investments are more likely to be influenced by

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nonmonetary considerations.

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Economic profit

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motivates entrepreneurial innovation & provides an incentive for investors to undertake risky projects.

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If the interest rate were 10 percent, the net present value of $100 to be received one year from now would be

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$90.91.

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Investment in capital goods only makes sense when

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the capital goods can be used to increase the future output of consumption goods.

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The money rate of interest is the

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real rate of interest plus the inflationary premium.

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The net present value of $1,000 received in the future would

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decrease if the interest rate rose.

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The pure interest yield

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is the real price one must pay for earlier availability.

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Which of the following is true of saving and investment?

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If investment is going to be undertaken, someone must save.

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You are considering the purchase of a business that is currently earning $25,000 per year in after-tax profit. If these conditions are expected to continue year after year into the future, and the interest rate is currently 10 percent, the current market value of this business is

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$250,000.

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(T/F) Positive economics cannot determine how much income inequality should be present in a country.

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true

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(T/F) Critics of government action to reduce income inequality argue that modifying the market process of income determination may create perverse incentives and hurt wealth creation.

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true

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Compared to low-income families, a larger proportion of high-income families

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is headed by a person between the ages of 35 and 64 / is headed by a person with a college degree / has both a husband and a wife who work full time

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Data on the distribution of income among individuals and families in the United States indicate that

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much of the inequality in annual income emanates from differences in education, age, hours worked, and family size.

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If complete equality of income were legislated, which of the following would economics predict?

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The incentive to produce and perform efficiently would be virtually eliminated.

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Imagine two cities, Engelgrad and Legreeville, where the rich, middle, and poor income recipients in one city have annual incomes identical to their counterparts' incomes in the other city. In Engelgrad, the poorest families one year almost always end up as the richest families the next year and become middle-income families the year after that. In Legreeville, however, the poor remain poor and the rich remain rich. Which of the following is true about the two cities?

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Annual data on the distribution of income will indicate that the degree of income inequality in the two cities is identical.

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In 2009, high-income families (the top 20 percent) in the United States earned approximately ____ percent of the total before-tax income.

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48

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When a person who receives welfare benefits earns income, those benefits are reduced as earned income rises. This is referred to as

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an implicit marginal tax.

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Which of the following best explains why so many persons with incomes below the poverty threshold income level work very little or not at all?

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They confront high implicit marginal tax rates.

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(T/F) In a market economy, the link between productivity and income provides individuals with an incentive to provide resources that are highly valued by others.

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true

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Which of the following would cause the poverty threshold income level for a given family to increase by 20 percent from one year to another?

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a 20 percent increase in the general level of prices

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Forests in the United States have, in recent decades,

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expanded substantially in the amount of wood grown.

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Generally, the elasticity of demand for an energy source in the long run will be

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considerably more elastic than in the short run.

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Higher prices for natural resources are

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not the story of the last two centuries, because resource prices have decline through most of this period.

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Predictions of severe shortages due to impending natural resource depletion

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are typically made without adequate recognition and consideration of resource price elasticities.

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Resource markets are like any other market in that

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higher prices encourage people to search for substitutes, the increase in quantity supplied in response to a higher price will generally be greater in the long run than in the short run, & the amount demanded of a resource is inversely related to its price.

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A U.S. trade policy that restricts the sale of foreign goods in the U.S. market will

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reduce the demand for U.S. export goods since foreigners will be less able to buy our goods if they cannot sell to us.

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Compared to the no-trade situation, if the United States imports shoes,

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the price of shoes will decline in the domestic market.

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Hong Kong and Singapore both have relatively

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low trade barriers and high rates of economic growth.

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Imposing a restrictive quota on imported plasma TVs will likely

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increase the price of the plasma TVs and decrease the quantity consumed.

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International trade is advantageous because trade makes it possible for people in each country to

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acquire goods from foreigners more economically than they could be produced domestically.

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Measured as a share of the economy, the size of the trade sector (exports plus imports) of the United States has

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approximately doubled since 1980 and tripled since 1960.

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Suppose the United States reduced the tariff on television sets, allowing foreign-produced televisions to more freely enter the U.S. market. Which of the following would most likely occur?

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The price of televisions to U.S. consumers would fall, and the demand for U.S. export products would rise.

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The political popularity of a tariff on imported goods that compete with products of a well-established domestic industry is

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not surprising since such a tariff would generally benefit an easily recognized interest group at the expense of uninformed, uninterested consumers.

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Trade restrictions like tariffs and quotas will

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reduce the value of goods and services that we will be able to produce and consume.

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Which of the following has resulted from the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)?

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the joint output of the United States, Mexico, and Canada has increased, trade between the United States and Mexico increased, & trade between the United States and Canada increased.

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"The Great Depression was caused by the 1929 stock market crash." Which of the following is an indication that this statement is false?

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The stock market had regained most of its losses from the October 1929 crash by April 1930.

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Based on the experience of the Great Depression and the New Deal, which one of the following strategies would be most likely to stimulate recovery from a serious economic recession?

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keep taxes low in order to stimulate production and minimize the decline in personal and business income

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Most economists believe the severity and duration of the Great Depression was primarily the result of

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a sharp contraction in the money supply.

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Which of the following resulted from the Smoot-Hawley trade bill of 1930?

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Many countries responded by imposing higher tariffs on American products, and the volume of international trade fell sharply.

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Which of the following was a result of the many programs introduced as part of the New Deal?

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a business environment of uncertainty that reduced output and investment

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