What is the difference between income and wealth?
What will be an ideal response?
Income is a flow variable. It is the amount a household earns over a period of time such as a year. Wealth is a stock variable. It is the amount of assets a household has accumulated at a point in time from past income or through saving or inheritance.
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During the 1990s the household savings rate in the United States as measured by NIPA
A) increased dramatically from two percent to almost six percent. B) fell sharply and was only 0.7% by the year 2004. C) increased only slightly because the federal budget deficit was finally eliminated. D) fell to two percent when a federal budget surplus appeared.
Which concept explains how individual consumers in market economies determine what is to be produced?
a. competition b. consumer sovereignty c. decentralized decision-making d. free enterprise