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Question 101. Inflation is a situation characterised by
  1.    Too many people chasing too few goods
  2.    Too many people chasing too little money
  3.    Too few money chasing too much goods
  4.    Too much money chasing too few goods
 Discuss Question
Answer: Option D. -> Too much money chasing too few goods
Answer: (d)Demand-pull inflation is asserted to arise when aggregate demand in an economy outpaces aggregate supply. It involves inflation rising as real gross domestic product rises and unemployment falls, as the economy moves along the Phillips curve. This is commonly described as “too much money chasing too few goods.”
Question 102. ‘Supply creates its own demand’. This statement is related to
  1.    Adam Smith
  2.    J.S. Mill
  3.    John Robinson
  4.    Prof. J.B. Say
 Discuss Question
Answer: Option D. -> Prof. J.B. Say
Answer: (d)
Jean Baptiste Say was a French economist. He is well known for Say’s Law (or Say’s Law of Markets), often summarized as:
“Aggregate supply creates its own aggregate demand”;
“Supply creates its own demand”, or “Supply constitutes its own demand”.
He argued that the production and sale of goods in an economy automatically produce an income for the producers of the same value, which would then be reinjected into the economy and create enough demand to buy the goods.
Thus production is determined by the supply of goods rather than demand.
Question 103. The term ‘Macro Economics’ was used by __________ .
  1.    Ragner Nurkse
  2.    Prof. Knight
  3.    Ragner Frisch
  4.    J.M. Keynes
 Discuss Question
Answer: Option C. -> Ragner Frisch
Answer: (c)Ragnar Frisch coined the widely-used term pair macroeconomics/microeconomics in 1933. He was a Norwegian economist and the co-recipient of the first Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 1969. He is known for having founded the discipline of econometrics.
Question 104. A ‘Transfer Income’ is an
  1.    Unearned income
  2.    Earned income
  3.    Income taken away from one person and given over to another
  4.    Income which is not produced by any production process
 Discuss Question
Answer: Option D. -> Income which is not produced by any production process
Answer: (d)Income which is not produced by any production process is called Transfer Income.
Question 105. The demand for money, according to Keynes, is for
  1.    precautionary motive
  2.    All the above motives
  3.    transaction motive
  4.    speculative motive
 Discuss Question
Answer: Option A. -> precautionary motive
Answer: (a)
According to Keynes, money is demanded because of three motives -transaction, precautionary and speculative.
The first two motives provide a yield of convenience and certainty. The third motive provides money yield. Keynes has termed the demand for money as liquidity preference.
Question 106. HDI is an aggregate measure of progress in which of the three dimensions?
  1.    Agriculture, Industry, Services
  2.    Height, Weight, Colour
  3.    Food Security, Employment, Income
  4.    Health, Education, Income
 Discuss Question
Answer: Option D. -> Health, Education, Income
Answer: (d)
The Human Development Index (HDI) is an aggregate measure of progress in three dimensions—health, education and income which are used to rank countries into four tiers of human development.
The HDI was developed by the Pakistani economist Mahboob ul Haq working alongside Indian economist Amartya Sen.
Question 107. The functional relationship between income and consumption expenditure is explained by
  1.    Law of Supply
  2.    Keynes’s psychological law of consumption
  3.    Law of Demand
  4.    Consumer’ Surplus
 Discuss Question
Answer: Option B. -> Keynes’s psychological law of consumption
Answer: (b)
Keynes defined Psychological Law of Consumption in terms of, “The fundamental psychological law, upon which we are entitled to depend with great confidence both a priori from our knowledge of human nature and from the detailed facts of experience, is that men are disposed of, as a rule, and on the average, to increase their consumption as their income increases but not by as much as the increase in the income.”
Question 108. Which curve shows the inverse relationship between unemployment and inflation rates ?
  1.    IS curve
  2.    Phillips curve
  3.    Indifference curve
  4.    Supply curve
 Discuss Question
Answer: Option B. -> Phillips curve
Answer: (b)
The Phillips curve shows the inverse relationship between inflation and unemployment: as unemployment decreases, inflation increases.
The relationship, however, is not linear. Graphically, the short-run Phillips curve traces an L-shape when the unemployment rate is on the x-axis and the inflation rate is on the y-axis.
Question 109. The difference between GNP and NNP equals
  1.    transfer payments
  2.    depreciation
  3.    personal taxes
  4.    corporate profits
 Discuss Question
Answer: Option B. -> depreciation
Answer: (b)
Gross National Product [GNP] is the gross value of all the final products without deducting the depreciation of fixed capital.
Net National Product [NNP] is the value of net output in an economy during a period of one year. The difference between the GNP and NNP is equal to Capital depreciation.
Question 110. The term ‘Green GNP’ emphasises
  1.    economic development
  2.    sustainable development
  3.    increase in per capita income
  4.    rapid growth of GNP
 Discuss Question
Answer: Option B. -> sustainable development
Answer: (b)
The gross national product (GNP) measures the welfare of a nation’s economy through the aggregate of products and services produced in that nation.
Although GNP is a proficient measurement of the magnitude of the economy, many economists, environmentalists and citizens have been arguing the validity of the GNP in respect to measuring welfare.
They are calling for a green national product that would indicate if activities benefit or harm the economy and well-being. This new national product would differ from the traditional GNP by addressing both the sustainability and well-being of the planet and its inhabitants.

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