President Trump's proposed increase in spending on infrastructure projects is an example of discretionary fiscal policy aimed at increasing
A) real GDP and employment.
B) tax revenues and the federal budget surplus.
C) disposable income and interest rates.
D) the money supply and money demand.
Answer: A
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Why is persistent unemployment a possibility in the Keynesian model but NOT in the classical model?
A) The Keynesian model assumes that people work for motives other than those of earning an income for themselves and supporting a family. B) The Keynesian model assumes that workers can lose their jobs to foreign competition during economic downturns. C) The Keynesian model assumes that the level of real GDP is inflexible. D) The Keynesian model assumes that nominal wages are inflexible downward.
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Assume that the publishing industry produces novels and textbooks, as shown in the production possibilities frontier in . Moving from point H to G, the opportunity cost of those five additional textbooks equals
a.
0.5 novels
b.
10 million novels
c.
3 novels
d.
8 novels
e.
2 novels