In the long run, a year-long drought that destroys most of the summer's wheat crops causes permanently:
A. higher prices.
B. lower prices.
C. lower output.
D. None of these is true.
Answer: D
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Refer to Figure 17-2. Suppose the economy is at point C in the figure above. If workers adjust their expectations of inflation, which of the following will be true?
A) Workers and firms expect inflation to be 1%. B) The short-run Phillips curve will shift to the right. C) The natural rate of unemployment is 6%. D) The economy will move from C to A. E) The short-run Phillips curve will shift to the left.
The Keynesians believe that
a. the Fed played a primary role in driving the Great Depression. b. the Fed played an important role in preventing the Great Depression from being worse than it could have been. c. the Fed played a negative but secondary role in the Great Depression. d. the Federal Reserve did all it could to prevent the Great Depression but essentially played no role in it.