Explain whether you agree or disagree with the following statement: "The reason that inflation is bad is because it increases the cost of living — the costs of goods and services we buy — without increasing income in general."
What will be an ideal response?
Disagree. Inflation, in general, must increase both our cost of living and nominal income. The increases in the prices of goods and services will be paid to the factors of production. Since the payments to the factors of production make up national income, nominal income will increase, in general, along with the cost of living.
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A) age. B) gender. C) height. D) willingness to pay. E) all of the above.
If perfect competition existed everywhere, along with frictionless exchange, perfect information, and constant returns to scale,
a. consumers would carry out transactions directly with resource suppliers b. firms would not have the information necessary to calculate marginal productivities of resources c. entrepreneurs would be needed to collect information d. consumers would produce output and then engage in barter e. the economy would be organized into one large firm