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Economics Past Questions and Answers

Economics Questions

Question 1296:
With a given level of money income, a consumer maximizes satisfaction from the consumption of goods and services when the?
  • A Total utility derived from each goods and services is increasing at an increasing rate
  • B Marginal utility derived from each good or service is increasing at the same rate
  • C Marginal utility derived per naira spent is the same for all the goods and services
  • D Total utility derived from all the goods and services is large
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Question 1297:
Ike's scale of preference reveals that he prefers bananas to pawpaw, pawpaw to oranges and oranges to bananas. Ike's preferences are therefore?
  • A Inconsistent
  • B Consistent
  • C Transitive
  • D Rational
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Question 1298:
One of the features of a free market economy is that?
  • A Resources are directed by the price mechanism
  • B Workers do not earn equal wages
  • C The profit motive is serverly constrained
  • D Descisions on the economy are taken by bureaucratic structures
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Question 1299:
One of the fundamental differences between a capitalist and a socialist economy is that while?
  • A The former is characterized by complete government ownership of resources, the latter characterized by complete private ownership
  • B In the former, prices act as signals in the allocation of resources, it is central authority that performs this function in the letter
  • C Taxes are levied in a capitalist economy, there is no taxation in a capitalist economy
  • D Income and wealth are equally distributed in the socialist economy, this is not so in a capitalist economy
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Question 1300:
When a country's population is experiencing increase returns, that country is said to be?
  • A Overpopulated
  • B Economically poor
  • C Over-producing goods and services
  • D Underpopulated
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