Economics: Macroeconomic and Microeconomic Factors
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What is the focus of macroeconomics?

  • Specific economic units
  • The price of specific products and resources
  • Total output and total employment (correct)
  • Individual industries and firms
  • What is the main concern of microeconomics?

  • National income and overall price level
  • Entire industries and economics
  • The individual industry, firm, or household (correct)
  • The unemployment rate and gross domestic product
  • Which branch of economics focuses on the optimal rate of inflation?

  • Microeconomics
  • Neither macroeconomics nor microeconomics
  • Macroeconomics (correct)
  • Both macroeconomics and microeconomics
  • What does macroeconomics analyze?

    <p>Total output, total employment, and aggregate expenditures</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Which aspect does microeconomics examine?

    <p>The price of specific products and resources</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Which branch of economics analyzes outcomes of economic behavior, evaluates them as good or bad, and may prescribe courses of action?

    <p>Normative Economics</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What are economic models used for in economics?

    <p>Simulations and forecasting</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the term for an efficient economy that produces what people want at the least possible cost?

    <p>Allocative economy</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Which branch of economics focuses on individual and business decisions regarding the allocation of resources and prices of goods and services?

    <p>Microeconomics</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What type of economics seeks to understand behavior and the operation of systems without making judgments, describing what exists and how it works?

    <p>Positive Economics</p> Signup and view all the answers

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