Many things that society values, such as good health, high-quality education, enjoyable recreation opportunities, and desirable moral attributes of the population, are not measured as part of GDP. It follows that
a. GDP is not a useful measure of society's welfare.
b. GDP is still a useful measure of society's welfare because providing these other attributes is the responsibility of government.
c. GDP is still a useful measure of society's welfare because it measures a nation's ability to purchase the inputs that can be used to help produce the things that contribute to welfare.
d. GDP is still the best measure of society's welfare because these other values cannot actually be measured.
c
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The fact that developed countries have strong, widely attended university systems indicates that
(a) university expansion should be a development priority. (b) universities teach skills used on the job. (c) developing countries place too much stress on agriculture. (d) none of the above.
A monopolist's cost curves will
a. be identical to those of a competitive firm. b. be higher than a competitive firm's cost curves. c. be peculiar to the individual producer since there is only one. d. drop more steeply as output increases.