A strength of the market economy is that:
A. it results in an equal distribution of wealth.
B. resources are used efficiently.
C. planners rather than consumers determine answers to the basic economic questions.
D. information for production and distribution decisions passes directly from the government to buyers.
Answer: B
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With regard to the Navigation Acts (1651 and later amendments), all of the following answers are true except
(a) No commodities originating from the Empire were to be shipped in any but British (including colonial) ships. (b) No commodities imported into the Empire were to be carried in any but British ships. (c) Only British subjects were allowed to be merchants in the colonies, and only British ships were to carry commodities from one English port to another. (d) There is no "except"; all of the above answers are true.
Today's railroads are:
(a) Privately owned and regulated by competitive forces. (b) Private owned but managed by federal regulatory bodies. (c) Federally owned and managed by government regulatory bodies. (d) Federally owned but competitive.