Comparing the minimum wages between 1974 and 2011 addresses the economic concept of
A) the principle of voluntary exchange. B) the principle of diminishing returns.
C) the real-nominal principle. D) the marginal principle.
C
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U.S. real GDP
A) measures the change in the price level over time. B) precisely measures the improving standard of living in the United States. C) excludes the value of underground production and leisure time. D) includes the value of underground production but excludes the value of leisure time. E) is not as accurate as nominal GDP when measuring standard of living changes over time.
Industry Y is a perfectly competitive industry. Assume that as a result of changes in other markets there is a twenty percent increase in the price of variable inputs used by firms in industry Y
After all adjustments have taken place, we would expect the equilibrium price in industry Y to: A) decrease and the number of firms to increase. B) decrease and the number of firms to decrease. C) increase and the number of firms to increase. D) increase and the number of firms to decrease.