The above figure shows Jane's budget line and two of her indifference curves. Which of the following happens to Jane's budget line if the price of a lobster dinner increased?
A) It would rotate inward around the vertical intercept, 10 lobster dinners.
B) It would rotate outward around the vertical intercept, 10 lobster dinners.
C) It would rotate inward around the horizontal intercept, 20 steak dinners.
D) It would rotate outward around the horizontal intercept, 20 steak dinners.
C
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The classical approach to macroeconomics assumes that
A) wages, but not prices, adjust quickly to balance quantities supplied and demanded in markets. B) wages and prices adjust quickly to balance quantities supplied and demanded in markets. C) prices, but not wages, adjust quickly to balance quantities supplied and demanded in markets. D) neither wages nor prices adjust quickly to balance quantities supplied and demanded in markets.
Due to a scarcity of resources,
a. governments should decide what should be produced b. the government must decide how to allocate available resources c. some members of each society must live in poverty d. every society must choose among competing uses of available resources e. resource availability exceeds the possible uses for available resources