Exam 3: Economic Challenges Facing Business Today

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Magnus has been unemployed for a long time because he has not been able to find a job in which he can apply his specialized knowledge about the Robostic Data System (RDS),a computer system that is now obsolete.What type of unemployment is Magnus facing?

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Which of the following best describes an industry where there is no direct competition,yet a firm operating in such an industry will have almost no control over pricing?

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Workers in high-tech industries,air travel,and manufacturing have all faced unemployment during periods of economic contraction.

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A private enterprise system rewards businesses for meeting the needs and demands of consumers.

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When a constant amount of inputs generates increased outputs,an increase in productivity occurs.

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North Korea is currently shifting toward a more market-oriented economy.

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Most industrialized nations operate economies based on _____.

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Which of the following is an implication of demand curves sloping downward?

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Socialism is one of the four market structures found in a private enterprise system.

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_____ has a blend of both planned economy and private enterprise system.

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Ogechi ventures into a new business with few competitors and requires a huge investment.Soon after entering the business,one of Ogechi's competitors introduces a price cut that forces Ogechi to reduce the prices of her products as well.In this scenario,Ogechi has ventured into _____.

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Gross domestic product (GDP)is based on the _____ of a country.

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A demand curve is the schedule that shows the relationship between the price of a product and the _____.

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When a firm possesses unique characteristics so important to competition in its industry that they form barriers to prevent entry by would-be competitors,a pure monopoly occurs.

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The demand curve will shift to the _____ and the prices will _____,if buyers' incomes increase.

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For most of us,economics amounts to a balance between what we want and what we can afford.

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The purpose of an expansionary monetary policy is to:

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Microeconomics examines not just the economic policies of individual nations,but the ways in which those individual policies affect the overall world economy.

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Hurricane and other such forces of nature can affect the supply curve.

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Microeconomics and macroeconomics have no correlation.

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