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Which of the following is NOT a factor of production?

  • land
  • labour
  • money
  • capital

Answer: money

The four factors are land, labour, capital and enterprise. Money is a medium of exchange, not a productive resource.

Which of the following would shift the demand curve for coffee to the right?

  • a rise in the price of coffee
  • a fall in the price of tea, a substitute
  • higher incomes, coffee a normal good
  • a new report that coffee harms health

Answer: higher incomes, coffee a normal good

Higher incomes raise demand for a normal good (shift right). A cheaper substitute or bad health news would shift coffee demand left; a price change is a movement along.

Which of the following is an injection into the circular flow of income?

  • household saving
  • taxation
  • investment
  • imports

Answer: investment

Injections are investment, government spending and exports. Saving, taxation and imports are leakages (withdrawals).

The imposition of a tariff on an imported good will typically

  • lower the domestic price and increase imports
  • raise the domestic price and reduce imports
  • leave domestic producers unaffected
  • increase consumer surplus

Answer: raise the domestic price and reduce imports

A tariff raises the price of imports, so domestic price rises, imports fall, domestic production rises, and consumer surplus falls.

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