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PPSC Economics Chapter 1 Basic Economics MCQs With Answers
Question # 1
Which of the following is not a way of helping developing economics.
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Aid
Loans
Protectionism of developed markets
Training and education programmes
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Question # 2
Economic growth can be measured by
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The CPI
The CBI
GDP
MPC
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Question # 3
Rapid increases in the price level during periods of recession or high unemployment are known as.
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Slump
Stagnation
Stagflation
Inflation
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Question # 4
Why does it make sense in assume that people are rational, if you want to predict their behavior.
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People are not guided by emotions when making decisions
People wheo act in the way that best gets them what they want will tend to repeat that behavior, and will tend to learn from mistakes that they do make
People never make mistakes, and tend to make the correct choices all of the time
People always logically figure out what to do.
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Question # 5
An increase in aggregate demand is more likely to lead to demand pull inflation if.
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Aggregate supply is perfectly elastic
Aggregate supply is perfectly inelastic
Aggregate supply is unit elastic
Aggregate supply is relatively elastic
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Question # 6
In the short term a firm will produce provided the revenue
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Covers fixed costs
Covers variable costs
Covers total costs
Covers revenue
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Question # 7
Which of the following best describes the selling of a production license to another firm.
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Hands over all rights to its products
Sells its products abroad
Sells the right to produce to another business
Sells the business to another business
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Question # 8
Which of the following rights be a scarce good.
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Love
faith
Self control
All of above
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Question # 9
The Philips curve shows the relationship between inflation and what?
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The balance of trade
The rate of growth in an economy
The rate of price increases
Un employment
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Question # 10
Which of the following is a determinant of consumption.
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Expectations about future prices
Level of indebtedness of consumers
The price level
All of the above
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Question # 11
If marginal product is below average product.
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The total product will fall
The average product will fall
Average variable costs will fall
Total revenue will fall
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Question # 12
In a market system sellers act in ___ interest, but this leads to behaviors in ___ interest.
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Self : self
Self ; society's
Society's ; society's
society's, self
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Question # 13
An increase in investment is most likely to be caused by.
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Lower interest rates
Lower national income
A decreasing the marginal propensity to consume
An increase in with drywalls.
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Question # 14
In monopolistic competition
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Demand is perfectly elastic
Products are homogeneous
Marginal revenue = pirce
The marginal revenue is below the demand curve and diverges
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Question # 15
Who advocates laissez fair.
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Monetarists
Classical
Neo classical
Modern
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Question # 16
Prices that do not always adjust rapidly to maintain equality between quantity supplied and quantity demanded are.
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Market prices
Sticky prices
Fixed prices
Regulatory prices
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Question # 17
If the "Regulated -market" price is below the equilibrium price.
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The quantity demanded will be greater than quantity supplied
Demand will be les than supply
Quantity demanded will be less than quantity supplied
Quantity demanded will equal quantity supplied
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Question # 18
Capital, as economists use the term.
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Is the money the firm spends to hire resources
Is money the firm raises from selling stock
Refers to the process by which resources are transformed into useful forms
Refers to things that have already been produced that are in turn used to produce other goods and services.
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Question # 19
If there is a price floor there will be.
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Shortages
Surpluses
Equilibrium
All of these
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Question # 20
If inflationary expectations increase, the short run Phillip's curve will
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Become vertical
Become up warding sloping
Shift to the right
Shift to the left
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Question # 21
The law of demand states that.
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As the quantity demanded rises, the price rises.
As the price rises the quantity demanded rises
As the price rises, the quantity demanded falls.
As supply rises, the demand rises.
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