Would an economist consider clean air a scarce resource? Explain

What will be an ideal response?

Yes, because the air had alternative uses. We can choose to use it to either breathe or to undertake activities that pollute it. The more we want to breathe clean air the more we must limit the production of pollutants. The more we pollute the air the less we can breathe clean air.

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GDP is not a complete measure of well-being

Indicate whether the statement is true or false

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In the Keynesian cross diagram, a decline in autonomous consumer expenditure causes the aggregate demand function to shift down, the equilibrium level of aggregate output to ________, and the IS curve to shift to the ________,

everything else held constant. A) rise; left B) rise; right C) fall; left D) fall; right

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