National Income Accounting Basics
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Who is the pioneer of the subject of economics mentioned in the text?

  • Karl Marx
  • Milton Friedman
  • Adam Smith (correct)
  • John Maynard Keynes
  • What are the three ways to calculate national income?

  • Production method, expenditure method, and income method
  • Product method, expenditure method, and income method (correct)
  • Production method, expenditure method, and wealth method
  • Product method, expenditure method, and wealth method
  • What are some of the central questions of economics mentioned in the text?

  • What generates the economic wealth of a nation, what makes countries rich or poor (correct)
  • How to distribute wealth, how to achieve economic equality, how to reduce poverty
  • How to calculate national income, how to reduce unemployment, how to control inflation
  • How to maximize profits, how to improve productivity, how to increase GDP
  • What does the economic well-being of a country depend on?

    <p>The transformation of natural resources through a production process</p> Signup and view all the answers

    In the modern economic setting, the flow of production arises out of the production of:

    <p>Commodities - goods and services by millions of enterprises</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What happens to the commodities after being produced?

    <p>They are purchased by consumers for final use</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is an example of a final good?

    <p>Article of clothing produced from cloth</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Which entity might purchase goods or services for use in further production?

    <p>Enterprises for further production</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the primary factor determining the economic wealth or well-being of a country?

    <p>The use of natural resources in generating a flow of production</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the role of enterprises in the flow of production?

    <p>To produce commodities - goods and services</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What happens to a final good once it has been sold?

    <p>It passes out of the active economic flow</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is meant by 'flow of production'?

    <p>The generation of income from commodity production</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What determines how economic wealth is generated from the possession of resources?

    <p>The transformation process</p> Signup and view all the answers

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