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This set of Basics of Economics Multiple Choice Questions & Answers (MCQs) focuses on Basics Of Economics Set 7

Q1 | According to Keynes, unemployment is due to:
  • deficiency of capital
  • deficiency of labour
  • deficiency of education
  • deficiency in effective demand
Q2 | “In the long run, we are all dead”. Who said this?
  • keynes
  • adam smith
  • karl marx
  • david ricardo
Q3 | According to Keynes, investment is a function of:
  • rate of interest
  • rate of profit
  • rate of mei
  • mei and rate of interest
Q4 | Keynes believed in :
  • full employment equilibrium
  • under employment equilibrium
  • both
  • none
Q5 | According to Keynes, wages and prices are:
  • rigid
  • flexible
  • variable
  • automatic
Q6 | In Economics, 1930s is popularly known as the period of:
  • great battle
  • great depression
  • industrial revolution
  • great devide
Q7 | Keynes strongly argued for:
  • free trade
  • non-intervention of government
  • laissez-faire
  • governmental intervention
Q8 | Consumption expenditure directly varies with:
  • savings
  • investment
  • disposable income
  • rate of interest
Q9 | An important issue of macro economics is the determination of:
  • consumption
  • production
  • utility
  • income and employment
Q10 | Pick the odd one:
  • aggregate demand
  • effective demand
  • j.m. keynes
  • law of market
Q11 | Which of the following items does not include in the group?
  • consumption
  • investment
  • rate of interest
  • net exports
Q12 | If marginal propensity to consume is 0.8, the value of multiplier will be:
  • 1
  • 2.5
  • 5
  • 2
Q13 | Who is known as the father of Modern Economics?
  • adam smith
  • j.m.keynes
  • robinson
  • ricardo
Q14 | Goods without which people can not live are called:
  • comforts
  • luxuries
  • necessaries
  • none
Q15 | The problem of what to produce is a problem of:
  • distribution
  • technological choice
  • consumption
  • allocation of resources
Q16 | Those things that possess both utility and scarcity are called:
  • economic goods
  • free goods
  • intermediate goods
  • luxuries
Q17 | If a worker specializes in the production of a single good, it is called:
  • product based division of labour
  • process based division of labour
  • worker based division of labour
  • none of these
Q18 | Goods produced for use in future productive process are called:
  • intermediate goods
  • final goods
  • consumer goods
  • capital goods
Q19 | In a horizontal straight line demand curve, the price elasticity ofdemand is:
  • unity
  • infinity
  • zero
  • less than one
Q20 | Who wrote the article Laws of Returns Under Competitive Conditions?
  • joan robinson
  • e.h. chamberlin
  • a.c. pigou
  • p. sraffa
Q21 | Increase in output less than proportional to increase in inputs iscalled:
  • increasing returns
  • constant returns
  • diminishing returns
  • marginal returns
Q22 | A simplified representation of a real situation is called:
  • theory
  • hypotheses
  • evidence
  • economic model
Q23 | When marginal product reaches its maximum, what can be said oftotal product?
  • total product must be at its maximum
  • total product starts to decline even if marginal product is positive
  • total product is increasing if marginal product is still positive
  • total product levels off
Q24 | When a firm doubles its inputs and finds that its output has morethan doubled, this is known as:
  • economies of scale.
  • constant returns to scale.
  • diseconomies of scale.
  • a violation of the law of diminishing returns.
Q25 | When average product is at a maximum, marginal product is:
  • zero
  • increasing
  • equal to average product
  • greater than average product