Economics - December 2007

Perhaps because to do so extreme contractionary monetary policy would have to be used, severely damaging aggregate demand and consequently, economic growth?

Is that right, and/or are there better reasons?

2007-12-03 09:57:57 · 3 answers · asked by Mark 2

2007-12-03 09:40:04 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-12-03 09:26:35 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous

I'm in Economics and am currently just wondering if there really are any advantages for the poor under a Capitalistic society. They're always under competition - so I'm just plain wondering. What do you guys think? What are the ways the poor benefit from Capitalism.

2007-12-03 08:37:08 · 3 answers · asked by shadowpal2 2

My economics teacher has been repeatedly teaching us that the profit maximising point for firms is when marginal revenues equal marginal costs. Well, to maximise profit, wouldn't the firm want MR to exceed MC, thus making an abnormal profit on each marginal unit?

There must be more to this than my understanding, unless my teacher is plain wrong...

2007-12-03 06:47:32 · 5 answers · asked by Mark 2

i dont really use money thats why i ask

2007-12-03 06:08:56 · 5 answers · asked by nunaqarqasimaju 1

I do not understand why the Treasury Department has to step in to negotiate the freezing of mortgages rates.

Why cant the banks/mortgage companies use their own discretion by doing it themselves?

You would think it would make good business sense to freeze the rate and having a mortgagee continuing paying the mortgage than having the loan forclosed altogether...

An explanation to why these companies are not already doing this would be helpful. Thanks.

2007-12-03 05:07:06 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous

Hillary in the AR Democrat in 1987 to the working families of the state, "it is just the realities of globalism" that free people should compete for a living against slaves. Free trade is a 35 yr old Communist plot to destroy America according to the 1963 congtressional record. Wal-Mart's corruption of America;s political establishment to capitalize from slavery while operating in a free market all to avoid living wages and undermine organized labor has nearly succeeded in this goal. What will WMT buy the Chinese military for Christmas this year? How much will you contribute? Think about it, you never bought anything made in the Soviet Union and still cant buy Cuban cigars because it was against our principle to profitteer from slavery. Why are we so rascist toward the Chinese that we dont have the same principle regarding them? Wal-Mart saved Communism to avoid living wages and intellectual idiots keep singing WMT commercials, stupid as they sound. WMT must be dismantled now.

2007-12-03 03:57:04 · 2 answers · asked by DAVID MICHAEL 1

The market for human kidneys is characterized by the same supply/demand considerations as any market. Currently, the demand for kidneys greatly outnumbers the supply of kidneys. Recently, the suggestion of creating a market for kidneys has been re-introduced. I would like you to do the following:
a) LIST and discuss three reasons that such a market would be desirable.
b) LIST and discuss three reasons such a market would not be desirable.
‘a’ and ‘b’ are, basically, pro/con analysis. Please try to find supporting evidence for these conclusions.

2007-12-03 02:41:49 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-12-03 02:13:02 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-12-03 01:17:17 · 7 answers · asked by Perplexed Bob 5

2007-12-03 01:16:50 · 3 answers · asked by KCMO girl 3

2007-12-02 22:53:41 · 4 answers · asked by RahulD 2

2007-12-02 21:02:04 · 6 answers · asked by sdn90036 6

Presumably it will eventually replace the Dollar as the reserve currency for the North Atlantic's Alliance, maybe for the first time opposing other currencies in worldwide trade particularly of oil. Then for instance will the Amero continue to be redeemable only through NYMEX and IPE? Will dollars become worthless in due course? If so what happens to our holdings, i.e will the amount we owe America and the rest of the world counter balance the amount we are owed and vise versa so it's no problem?

2007-12-02 20:56:25 · 2 answers · asked by robert j 1

I know china makes all our stuff, like at least 85% of it...I'm sure if they hold out on making stuff for us fat lazy americans we'll only have services and no goods. China also has a larger population than us, so if they wanted to, they can overpower us with manpower. If I was in the China government, I'll make america our puppet cause we can mess up their economy with any decision that they make. China already messed up the usa economy by paying their workers nothing, while the american workers need more money cause things are more expensive there. Well, shouldn't american buy stuff in china then, no...they still buy stuff in america. I think americans need to take a plane to china and buy stuff there and come back to usa cause prices here are a joke. Close down the wal mart, close down the other large corporations that make all their stuff in china, hell with this economy, if it ain't made in america, don't friggin buy it.

2007-12-02 19:34:17 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous

Brazil's real GDP was 1,082 billion reals in 2005 and 1,120 billion reals in 2006. Brazil's population growth rate in 2006 was 1.2 percent. The approximate number of years it takes for real GDP per person in Brazil to double if the 2006 economic growth rate and poplulation growth rate are maintained is ___ years.

How would I solve this?

2007-12-02 18:41:14 · 1 answers · asked by dianawuvsyou 1

Is this OK? What ever happened to manufacturing (yea, other than outsourcing)?

Should we all sell insurance to eachother?

2007-12-02 17:20:42 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous

Is this OK? What ever happened to manufacturing (yea, other than outsourcing)?

Should we all sell insurance to eachother?

2007-12-02 17:20:07 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous

we have enough oil in the us to last 1000 years at current usage. what do you think

2007-12-02 16:56:32 · 5 answers · asked by West of Encino 7

Is money like energy and mass........mass can't be created nor destroyed.....that stuff.

Basically can the rich get richer and the poor also get richer (and of course everyone in between also get riches).

Just curious.

2007-12-02 15:43:44 · 2 answers · asked by My name is not bruce 7

One of the most authoritative theories about the constitution of society in the modern world is that economics and economic relationships define the fundamental structure of all social relationships, indeed of society itself. Both Adam Smith and Karl Marx, in their very different ways, either asserted or implied the primacy of economics and economic relationships as fundamental to the existence and evolution of nations and to the creation of wealth. But these views displaced an older conception of society which considered ethics and ethical codes as the fundamental bedrock of societies. In that older view, the success of a society was judged by its adherence to the ‘good’ rather than to its store of accumulated wealth. Ethical codes may have had a religious dimension, but it was the way conduct and behavior were regulated by or referred to ethical judgement that allowed for the stability, maintenance, and success of social relationships and, hence, of society as a whole.

2007-12-02 15:13:15 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous

per year? (in north america)

2007-12-02 15:12:57 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-12-02 12:41:13 · 2 answers · asked by ken 1

I'm desperately trying to understand the stock market and the Great Depression, so my question is this: What, exactly, is a stock market "crash," and how did/does it happen? Explain this to me like you would with a mentally retarded first-grader.

2007-12-02 11:21:34 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-12-02 11:09:26 · 1 answers · asked by CouGaR 2

It needs to be accessible on line as well. Thanks for the help!

2007-12-02 09:39:15 · 1 answers · asked by galapogos 1

For an economy in which there is no technological progress, explain whatmust occur for the steady state to occur. Also explain what this implies about the rate of growth of output, output per worker, and the capital stock.

2007-12-02 07:39:14 · 1 answers · asked by brownk1031 1

2007-12-02 06:38:22 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous

I need full explanation please .

2007-12-02 01:55:50 · 1 answers · asked by Anonymous