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ECO 4223 LUTHER EXAM 1 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS WITH SOLUTIONS 2024
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ECO 4223 LUTHER EXAM 1 QUESTIONSAND ANSWERS WITH SOLUTIONS 2024
Money - ANSWER commonly accepted medium of exchange
·Common functions of money - ANSWER o Medium of exchange (necessary, but not sufficient)
o Store of value (necessary, but trivial)
o Unit of account (unnecessary)
Inside Money - ANSWER (bank money) created within banking system and is a claim to some other asset
that is used to make payments.
Inside Money Example - ANSWER Checking account, bank owes you that money and you can use a debit
card to make a payment.
Outside Money - ANSWER (base money) created outside banking system and is money used for final
settlement because it's not redeemable.
Outside Money Example - ANSWER $100 bill (cash is not redeemable)
Commodity Money - ANSWER is a good that is used as money. Historical examples include gold, silver
and salt.
Fiat Money - ANSWER is an item that has no use apart from being a commonly accepted medium of
exchange. Modern examples the dollar and euros.
Why Do We Use Money? (2 views) - ANSWER 1) Historical Materialist View
2) Economic View
Historical Materialist View - ANSWER (Anthropologist favor) money is a revenue-raising technology
introduced by governments to collect taxes more effectively.
, Economic View - ANSWER (Economists favor) money is a productive technology that reduces transaction
costs hence, facilitates exchange.
State Theory of Money - ANSWER or chartalism, maintains that money was created by the government.
Tools governments use to determine medium of exchange (4) - ANSWER o Public receivability
o Legal tender status
o Forced money laws
o Ban alternatives
Public Receivability - ANSWER the government commits to accepting taxes and making purchases with it.
Legal tender status - ANSWER courts are required to recognize the item as satisfactory payment of any
debt, and settle disputes by requiring payment in the item.
Forced money laws - ANSWER the government punishes those refusing to accept its preferred money.
Ban alternatives - ANSWER the government punishes those using some alternative money.
Epistemic Problem of State Theory of Money - ANSWER you have to accept someone recognized the
potential for money- before money had ever existed
Spontaneous Order Theory of Money - ANSWER describes a situation where the outcomes is not the
intention of the relevant decision makers. The outcome-money-is a product of human action, but not
design.
Characteristics of a good money (6) - ANSWER o Saleable (widely accepted)
o Durable
o Portable
o Divisible
o Uniform
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