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PPSC Economics Chapter 1 Basic Economics MCQs With Answers
Question # 1
In land intensive method which mean production is used comparativelymore
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Labour
Land
Capital
Organization
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Question # 2
Who advocates laissez fair.
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Monetarists
Classical
Neo classical
Modern
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Question # 3
If there is a price floor there will be.
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Shortages
Surpluses
Equilibrium
All of these
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Question # 4
A recurring theme in economics is.
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People have unlimited wants in the face of limited resources
There are unlimited resources
Our country is rich, we just don't realize it
People have limited wants in the face of limited resource.
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Question # 5
A scarce good.
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Does not exist
Is a good that can only be purchased with money
Is a good that can never be purchased with money
Is a good that is available in limited quantities, but is desired in greater quantities.
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Question # 6
Labour productivity measures.
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The output per worker
The output per machine
Total output
Marginal output
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Question # 7
A government might use tax to.
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Discourage consumption of positive externalities
Discourage consumption of public goods
Discourage consumption of merit goods
Discourage consumption of negative externalities
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Question # 8
The price mechanism cannot.
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Act as a signal
Act as an incentive
Act as a rationing device
Shift the demand curve
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Question # 9
When internal economics of scale occur
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Total costs fall
Marginal costs increase
Average costs fall
Revenue falls
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Question # 10
In pure monopoly what is the relation between the price and teh marginal revenue.
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The price is greater than the marginal revenue
The price is les than the marginal revenue
There is no relation
They are equal
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Question # 11
A public good will
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Be underprovided in the free market
Be overprovided in the free market
Not be provided in the free market
Has no opportunity cost
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Question # 12
An increase in aggregate demand if aggregate supply is totally inelastic will.
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Increase price but not output
Increase output but not price
Increase out put and price
Decrease output and price
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Question # 13
Which of the following is necessary for a natural monopoly.
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Economies of scale
A high proportion of the total cost is the cost of capital goods
The market is very small
All of the above
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Question # 14
When supply increases in an agricultural market famer's earnings might fall because.
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Supply is price elastic
Demand is price inelastic
the government buys up all the excess production
All output must be sold at a maximum price
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Question # 15
Any combination of products inside the production possibility frontier is
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Allocatively inefficient
X inefficient
Consumer inefficient
Productively inefficient
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Question # 16
If an economy is productively efficient.
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Everyone is wealthy
Resources are unemployed
More of one product can only be produced if less of another product is produced.
The distribution of income is equal
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Question # 17
According to the quantity theory of money an increase in the money supply is most likely to lead ot inflation if
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The velocity of circulation decreases
The number of transactions decreases
There is deflation
The velocity of circulation and the number of transactions is constant
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Question # 18
The marginal rate of tax paid is.
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The total tax paid /total income
Total income/total tax paid
Change in the tax paid/change in income
Change in income/change in tax paid
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Question # 19
An independent assessment of the impact of firm's activities on society is called a.
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Financial audit
Balance sheet
Profit and uses account
Social audit
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Question # 20
When referring to economic growth we normally refer to.
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Growth in actual real per capita output
Growth in potential real per capita output
Growth in actual nominal per capita output
Growth in potential real per capita output
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Question # 21
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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