Why do we subtract import spending from total expenditures?
What will be an ideal response?
Import spending is defined as spending on goods and services that are produced in foreign countries. When we total up consumption expenditures, investment spending, and government spending, this total includes spending on goods and services, regardless of where they are produced. That is, it includes some import spending. We must then subtract the value of import spending from total expenditures because we would be including spending on goods and services that is not the result of production of newly produced goods and services in the United States. We want total expenditures to reflect expenditures on final goods and services produced in the domestic economy.
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The assumption that preferences are complete:
A) means that a consumer will spend her entire income. B) is unnecessary, as long as transitivity is assumed. C) recognizes that there may be pairs of market baskets that cannot be compared. D) means that the consumer can compare any two market baskets of goods and determine that either one is preferred to the other or that she is indifferent between them.
The more elastic the demand for a good,
a. the more of an excise tax is that is collected by sellers b. the more of an excise tax that is paid by buyers c. the more an excise that is paid by sellers d. the more elastic the supply of that good e. the smaller the burden of a tax on that good