Exam 26: The Changing Role of the Federal Government

In the 1960s and 1970s the U.S.passed several major consumer safety laws,including the Flammable Fabrics Act and the Child Protection Act.The economic impact of such legislation may include all of the following except:

Between 1965 and 1972,eight major pieces of consumer-protection legislation were enacted.This burst of legislative activity was largely driven by

New Deal environmental policies included all of the following except:

Which is true of total federal spending relative to GDP?

Market-oriented economists favor the use of _____ to solve the global warming problem.

Federal support for road building into publicly owned commercial forests has caused

The income elasticity of demand for agricultural products is typically

The Cold War,or "war on communism,"

Adolph Wagner wrote that the public sector would continuously and inevitably expand due to

In early 1996,Congress passed the "Freedom to Farm Bill." Following the bill's enactment,

Transfer payments include

According to William Niskanen's model of bureaucracy,bureaus tend to be overfunded because

A comparison of a traditional price support program and the Brannan plan shows that

Alfred Kahn's plan for airline deregulation emphasized

According to William Niskanen's model of bureaucracy,Congress tends to approve a bureau's budget at a level where

A key innovation of the Carter administration (1976-1980)was

According to _________,liberal programs survive attempts by conservative administrations to eliminate them because of the "tyranny of the status quo."

If the government-imposed price of corn is greater than the market price,

"Reducing taxes increases incentives to work and save." This view is typically associated with

Features of "Reagonomics" include all of the following except: