When national income increases from $300 billion to $400 billion, national consumption increases from $300 billion to $360 billion. At Y = $400 billion, the MPC is
a. 0.2
b. 0.5
c. 0.6
d. 0.67
e. 1.33
C
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a. demand for the product to fall b. the market supply curve to shift to the left c. the long-run economic profit of individual firms in the industry to fall d. the short-run economic profit of individual firms in the industry to remain unchanged e. short-run profits to rise as the industry raises price more than the cost of pollution
The pre-Keynesian or classical economic theory viewed the long-run aggregate supply curve for the economy to be:
a. horizontal at the full-employment level of real GDP. b. positively sloped at the full-employment level of real GDP. c. vertical at the full-employment level of real GDP. d. backward bending at the full-employment level of real GDP.