Chapter 1 Economics Foundations and Models
Chapter 1 Economics: Foundations and Models
1.1 Three Key Economic Ideas
1) Recent changes occurring within the U.S. health care system, including lower insurance
reimbursement rates, have resulted in
A) a growing number of doctor's choosing to open p...
1) Recent changes occurring within the U.S. health care system, including lower insurance
reimbursement rates, have resulted in
A) a growing number of doctor's choosing to open private practices.
B) more medical practices being owned by hospitals than by individual doctors.
C) a majority of hospitals closing routine medical practices in order to focus only on emergency
care facilities.
D) a majority of doctors working directly for insurance companies.
Answer: B
Diff: 2 Page Ref: 3
Topic: Scarcity
Learning Outcome: Micro-1: Identify the basic principles of economics and explain how to
think like an economist
AACSB: Analytic thinking
Special Feature: Chapter Opener: Is the Private Doctor's Office Going to Disappear?
2) In economics, choices must be made because we live in a world of
A) unemployment.
B) scarcity.
C) greed.
D) unlimited resources.
Answer: B
Diff: 1 Page Ref: 4
Topic: Scarcity
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Learning Outcome: Micro-1: Identify the basic principles of economics and explain how to
think like an economist
AACSB: Analytic thinking
3) Which of the following statements is true about scarcity?
A) Scarcity refers to the situation in which unlimited wants exceed limited resources.
B) Scarcity is not a problem for the wealthy.
C) Scarcity is only a problem when a country has too large a population.
D) Scarcity arises when there is a wide disparity in income distribution.
Answer: A
Diff: 1 Page Ref: 4
Topic: Scarcity
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Learning Outcome: Micro-1: Identify the basic principles of economics and explain how to
think like an economist
AACSB: Analytic thinking
,4) The basic economic problem of ________ has always existed and will continue to exist.
A) scarcity
B) efficiency
C) inflation
D) recession
Answer: A
Diff: 1 Page Ref: 4
Topic: Scarcity
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Learning Outcome: Micro-1: Identify the basic principles of economics and explain how to
think like an economist
AACSB: Analytic thinking
5) By definition, economics is the study of
A) how to make money in the stock market.
B) how to make money in a market economy.
C) the choices people make to attain their goals, given their scarce resources.
D) supply and demand.
Answer: C
Diff: 1 Page Ref: 4
Topic: Scarcity
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Learning Outcome: Micro-1: Identify the basic principles of economics and explain how to
think like an economist
AACSB: Analytic thinking
6) An economic ________ is a simplified version of some aspect of economic life used to
analyze an economic issue.
A) market
B) trade-off
C) variable
D) model
Answer: D
Diff: 1 Page Ref: 4
Topic: Economic Models
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Learning Outcome: Micro-1: Identify the basic principles of economics and explain how to
think like an economist
AACSB: Analytic thinking
,7) Where do economic agents such as individuals, firms and nations, interact with each other?
A) in public locations monitored by the government
B) in any arena that brings together buyers and sellers
C) in any physical location people where people can physically get together for selling goods,
such as shopping malls
D) in any location where transactions can be monitored by consumer groups and taxed by the
government
Answer: B
Diff: 1 Page Ref: 4
Topic: Markets
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Learning Outcome: Micro-1: Identify the basic principles of economics and explain how to
think like an economist
AACSB: Analytic thinking
8) The term ________ in economics refers to a group of buyers and sellers of a product and the
arrangement by which they come together to trade.
A) collective
B) cooperative
C) market
D) trade-off
Answer: C
Diff: 1 Page Ref: 4
Topic: Markets
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Learning Outcome: Micro-1: Identify the basic principles of economics and explain how to
think like an economist
AACSB: Analytic thinking
9) Economists assume that individuals
A) behave in unpredictable ways.
B) will never take actions to help others.
C) prefer to live in a society that values fairness above all else.
D) are rational and respond to incentives.
Answer: D
Diff: 1 Page Ref: 5
Topic: People Are Rational
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Learning Outcome: Micro-1: Identify the basic principles of economics and explain how to
think like an economist
AACSB: Analytic thinking
, 10) Economists assume that rational behavior is useful in explaining choices people make
A) because irrational people do not make economic choices.
B) even though people may not behave rationally all the time.
C) because individuals act rationally all the time in all circumstances.
D) even though people rarely, if ever, behave in a rational manner.
Answer: B
Diff: 2 Page Ref: 5
Topic: People Are Rational
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Learning Outcome: Micro-1: Identify the basic principles of economics and explain how to
think like an economist
AACSB: Analytic thinking
11) Economists assume that rational people do all of the following except
A) use all available information as they act to achieve their goals.
B) undertake activities that benefit others and hurt themselves.
C) weigh the benefits and costs of all possible alternative actions.
D) respond to economic incentives.
Answer: B
Diff: 2 Page Ref: 5
Topic: People Are Rational
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Learning Outcome: Micro-1: Identify the basic principles of economics and explain how to
think like an economist
AACSB: Analytic thinking
12) Economics does not study correct or incorrect behaviors but rather it assumes that economic
agents behave ________, meaning they make the best decisions given their knowledge of the
costs and benefits.
A) equitably
B) rationally
C) emotionally
D) selfishly
Answer: B
Diff: 2 Page Ref: 5
Topic: People Are Rational
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Learning Outcome: Micro-1: Identify the basic principles of economics and explain how to
think like an economist
AACSB: Analytic thinking
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