The concept of "the invisible hand" suggests that to attain efficiency, the government should
A) guide economic activity.
B) set prices.
C) leave prices and output decisions to the competitive market.
D) regulate all production decisions, but not price decisions.
E) make sure that a command system is used to allocate resources.
C
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What will be an ideal response?
Wall Street bankers opposed the Second Bank of the United States. Their opposition was based on the idea that the Second Bank
a. lent too freely to the federal government. b. followed a monetary policy that favored stable prices even at the cost of a slower growing economy. c. followed a monetary policy that kept interest rates too high. d. favored Philadelphia because that was where the head office of the bank was located.