Exam 1: Introduction: What Is Economics

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Recall the Application about housing prices in Cuba to answer the following question(s). -Prior to the recent housing reforms in Cuba,homeowners had ________ incentives to repair their homes,which therefore ________ construction of new homes.

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________ is a situation in which resources are limited in quantity and can be used in different ways.

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What assumption was used by the authors of the book when analyzing the traffic congestion problem in London?

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Deciding if a college uses more PhDs than graduate assistants to teach introductory classes answers the economic question of

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Which of the following is a question answered with positive economic analysis?

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Which of the following is NOT an example of a marginal question?

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According to the text,economists identify that the reason why traffic congestions exists and wastes large amounts of resources in the economy is because

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One example of a microeconomic question is,"Should the inflation rate be lowered?"

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Recall the Application about the incentives to buy hybrid vehicles to answer the following question(s). -According to the book,what are the four elements of economic thinking?

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The reason why economists do not need details regarding the topography of a region when determining driving directions is because the topography is irrelevant to complete your objective of getting to a certain place.

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Economists will never reach the same conclusions in their positive analyses.

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What did Adam Smith mean when he wrote that individuals rationally act in their own self-interest?

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Ceteris paribus is the Latin expression meaning

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To think at the margin means to consider

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Economics is best defined as the study of

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Recall the Application about the incentives to buy hybrid vehicles to answer the following question(s). -According to the Application,which of the following increased the incentive to buy hybrid vehicles?

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There is a negative relationship between two variables if the two variables

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Resources are all of the following EXCEPT

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Which of the following is a question that needs to be answered with normative economic reasoning?

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Economics is the study of

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