Economics
Economics MCQs with Answers and Explanations | Microeconomics & Macroeconomics Objective Questions.
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Price of commodity is an independent variable
Quantity demanded is a dependent variable
Reciprocal relationship is found between price and quantity demanded
All of the above
✅ The correct answer is D.
Under law of demand Price of commodity is an independent variable, Quantity demanded is a dependent variable and Reciprocal relationship is found between price and quantity demanded.
1843
1848
1853
1859
✅ The correct answer is B.
The Communist Manifesto, written jointly by Marx and Engels’s was published in 1848.
Oil prices are rising in Pakistan
Profit rate is high on textile industry
The firms try to make huge profits
The government has failed to control inflation
✅ The correct answer is D.
The government has failed to control inflation relates to macroeconomics. Governments can use wage and price controls to fight inflation, but that can cause recession and job losses. Governments can also employ a contradictory monetary policy to fight inflation by reducing the money supply within an economy via decreased bond prices and increased interest rates.
Nominal wages
Real wages
Average product
Government policy
✅ The correct answer is B.
The amount of goods and services which the labourer actually gets is called his real wages. The standard of living and the prosperity of a labourer depend not on his money wages but on his real wages.
Given scale of preferences as between different combinations of two goods
Diminishing marginal rate of substitution
Constant marginal utility of money
Consumers would always prefer more of a particular good to less of it, other things remaining the same
✅ The correct answer is C.
Constant marginal utility of money is not a assumption of the theory of demand based on analysis of indifference curves. An indifference curve is a graph that shows a combination of two goods that give a consumer equal satisfaction and utility, thereby making the consumer indifferent.
Skilled labour
Diplomacy
Abundant natural resources
a’ and ‘c’ both
✅ The correct answer is D.
Economic development of a country requires Skilled labour and Abundant natural resources.
Consumer’s equilibrium
Consumer’s surplus
Consumer’s expenditure
None of the above
✅ The correct answer is B.
In economics, what a consumer is ready to pay minus what he actually pays, is termed as Consumer’s surplus. Consumer surplus is defined as the difference between the consumers’ willingness to pay for a commodity and the actual price paid by them, or the equilibrium price.
No shortage exists
Quantity demanded equals quantity supplied
A price is established that clears the market
All of the above are correct
✅ The correct answer is D.
When a market is in equilibrium No shortage exists, Quantity demanded equals quantity supplied and A price is established that clears the market.
LAC
LMC
AFC
SAC
✅ The correct answer is A.
In the long run, normal profits are included in the LAC curve. Long run average cost (LAC) can be defined as the average of the LTC curve or the cost per unit of output in the long run.
Consumer goods
Capital goods
Agricultural goods
Public goods
✅ The correct answer is B.
Larger production of Capital goods goods would lead to higher production in future. If investment in capital good increases ,in turn it further increases the production of consumer goods in the long run. So, if an economy is investing more in capital goods, it shows signs of growth in near future, an increase in GDP.