Suppose you are on a committee seeking to increase revenue from your city's bus system. If demand is _______, you would recommend raising the fare

a. perfectly elastic
b. elastic
c. unitary elastic
d. inelastic

d

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If the savings rate of Country A increases from 10% to 20% and technology growth is zero, then the neoclassical model predicts that in the steady state

a. the capital-to-labor ratio will not grow in the long-run but higher than it is now. b. the capital-to-labor ratio will grow 10% faster. c. the growth rate of output will be permanently higher. d. the level of output will be permanently higher. e. a and d.

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The nature of contracts changed in the 19th century through judicial instrumentalism and had what effect?

(a) Facilitating free-market determinations of wages and prices. (b) Allowing factory owners to contract with masses of employees for wages, hours and working conditions if the terms were made known and the laborers agreed to them. (c) Advancing the rule of caveat emptor in markets because if a seller unknowingly sold defective goods, the buyer's opportunity to inspect the goods before purchase would ensure the seller's innocence of overt deception. (d) All of the above were effects of the changes to the nature of contracts.

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