When they are confronted with an adverse shock to aggregate supply, policymakers face a difficult choice in that
a. if they contract aggregate demand, the unemployment rate will increase further.
b. if they expand aggregate demand, the inflation rate will increase further.
c. they face a less favorable trade-off between inflation and unemployment than they did before the shock.
d. All of the above are correct.
d
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Which of the following is TRUE?
A) Lotteries work best when a resource can serve just one user at a time in a sequence. B) A market price always allocates resources better than a command system. C) In the United States, how tax dollars are allocated among competing uses is an example of how resources are allocated by majority rule. D) Force has never played an important role in allocating scarce resources.
One reason for international specialization in production is
a. differing national tastes b. diseconomies of scale in production c. a high world price for a good d. resources are plentiful in all nations e. people have limited wants for domestically produced goods and services