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SOLUTION MANUAL FOR e eIssues in Economics Today 10th Edition by Robert Guell
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Chapter 1-47 e
Chapter 1 e
End of Chapter Questions
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Quiz Yourself
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1. Scarcity implies that the allocation decision chosen by society can
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a) not make more of any one good.e e e e e e
b) always make more of any good. e e e e e
c) typically make more of one good but at the expense of making less of
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another. e
d) always make more of all goods simultaneously. e e e e e e
e Explanation: Scarcity implies that choices involve trade-offs.
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AACSB: Reflective Thinking e e
Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation
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Blooms: Understand
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Difficulty: 02 Medium e e
Gradeable: automatic
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Learning Objective: 01-01
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Topic: Economics and Opportunity Cost
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2. A production possibilities frontier is a simple model of
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a) allocating scarce inputs to the production of alternative outputs. e e e e e e e e
a) price and production/consumption in a market.
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b) the cost of producing goods. e e e e
c) the number of inputs required to produce varying levels of output.
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Explanation: The production possibilities frontier shows the quantity of two goods that
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can be produced. It implies that scarcity requires that choices be made as to how to use
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resources.
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AACSB: Reflective Thinking e e
Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation
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Blooms: Understand
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Difficulty: 02 Medium e e
Gradeable: automatic
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Learning Objective: 01-01
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Topic: Modeling Opportunity Cost Using the Production Possibilities Frontier
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,3. The underlying reason that there are unattainable points on a production possibilities
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frontier is that there
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a. is government. e
b. are always choices that must be made. e e e e e e
c. are scarce resources within a fixed level of technology.
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d. is unemployment of resources.e e e
Explanation: The points outside the production possibilities frontier are unattainable. This
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means that currently available resources and technology are insufficient to produce
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amounts greater than those illustrated on the frontier. On a graph, everything beyond the
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frontier is unattainable.
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AACSB: Reflective Thinking e e
Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation
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Blooms: Remember
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Difficulty: 01 Easy e e
Gradeable: automatic
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Learning Objective: 01-01
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Topic: Modeling Opportunity Cost Using the Production Possibilities Frontier
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4. The underlying reason production possibilities frontiers are likely to be bowed out
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(rather than linear) is because
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a. choices have consequences. e e
b. there are always opportunity costs. e e e e
c. some resources and people can be better used producing one good rather
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than another. e e
d. there is always some level of unemployment. e e e e e e
Explanation: If the production possibilities frontier is not a line but is bowed out away
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efrom the origin, then opportunity cost is increasing. The reason for this is that as we add
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emore resources to the production of, for example, pizza, we are using fewer resources to
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eproduce soda. Compounding that problem, at each stage as we take the resources away
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efrom soda and put them into pizza, we are moving workers who are worse at pizza
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eproduction and better at soda production than those moved in the previous stage. This
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emeans that the increase in pizza production is diminishing and the loss in soda production
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is increasing. An economist would call this an example of increasing opportunity cost. If
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ethe production possibilities frontier is a straight line that is not bowed out away from the
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eorigin, then opportunity cost is constant.
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AACSB: Knowledge Application e e
Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation
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Blooms: Remember
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Difficulty: 01 Easy e e
Gradeable: automatic
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Learning Objective: 01-02
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Topic: Attributes of the Production Possibilities Frontier
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,5. Suppose you were modeling the impact of the introduction of computer automation
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into manufacturing on a production possibilities frontier (PPF) with two manufactured
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egoods on their respective axes. It would be more likely that the result would be
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a) generalized growth with the PPF moving both up and to the right. e e e e e e e e e e e
b) specialized growth with the PPF moving both up and to the right. e e e e e e e e e e e
c) generalized growth with the PPF just moving up and not to the right. e e e e e e e e e e e e
d) specialized growth with the PPF just moving up and not to the right. e e e e e e e e e e e e
eExplanation: Computer automation is a general improvement in technology so it would
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improve all manufacturing. As a result, it would result in generalized growth and move
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the PPF both up and to the right.
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AACSB: Knowledge Application e e
Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation
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Blooms: Remember
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Difficulty: 01 Easy e e
Gradeable: automatic
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Learning Objective: 01-
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03Topic: Economic
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Growth
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6. The optimization assumption suggests that people make
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a. irrational decisions. e
b. unpredictable decisions. e
c. decisions to make themselves as well off as possible. e e e e e e e e
d. decisions without thinking very hard. e e e e
Explanation: The optimization assumption suggests that the person in question is trying
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to maximize some objective. Consumers are assumed to be making decisions that
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emaximize their happiness subject to a scarce amount of money.
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AACSB: Reflective Thinking e e
Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation
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Blooms: Remember
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Difficulty: 01 Easy e e
Gradeable: automatic
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Learning Objective: 01-01
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Topic: Thinking Economically
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7. Imagine an economist ordering donuts one-by-one. When deciding how many donuts
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to order they would pick that number where the enjoyment of the
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eenjoyment they could get from using the money on another good.
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a. first donut e
b. last/marginal donut e
c. average/typical donut e
d. total number of donuts e e e
Explanation: The enjoyment of the last slice is the marginal benefit of that slice. If this
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enjoyment is more than the enjoyment from some alternative, more will be consumed.
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Blooms: Understand
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Difficulty: 02 Medium e e
Gradeable: automatic
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Learning Objective: 01-04
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Topic: Thinking Economically
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8. Of course, all individual students are better off if they earn better grades. If you were
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to conclude that all students would be better off if everyone received an A, you would
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a. have fallen victim to the fallacy of scarcity. e e e e e e e
b. be right. e
c. have fallen victim to the fallacy of composition. e e e e e e e
d. be mistaking correlation with causation.
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Explanation: The fallacy of composition is the mistake in logic that suggests that the total
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economic impact of something is always and simply equal to the sum of the individual
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eparts.
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Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation
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Blooms: Understand
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Difficulty: 02 Medium e e
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Learning Objective: 01-04
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Topic: Thinking Economically
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9. Imagine you were to conclude, after carefully examining data and using proper
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eevaluation techniques, that a tax credit for attending college benefits low income earners
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emore than a tax deduction (of equal total cost to the government) would. You would have
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engaged in
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a. negative
b. positive
c. normative
d. creative
Explanation: Economists, and social scientists in general, distinguish views of ―the way
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ethings are‖ from ―the way things should be,‖ calling the former positive analysis and the
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elatter normative analysis. Positive analysis is a form of analysis that seeks to understand
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the way things are and why they are that way. Normative analysis is a form of analysis
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ethat seeks to understand the way things should be.
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AACSB: Reflective Thinking e e
Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation
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Blooms: Understand
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Difficulty: 02 Medium e e
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Learning Objective: 01-04
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Topic: Thinking Economically
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