The Economic Problem Can Best Be Stated As

question 170

Multiple Choice

The economic problem can best be stated as:

• A) How can the economy improve technology so as to shift the production possibility frontier up and to the right?
• B) Given scarce resources, how exactly do societies go about deciding what to produce, how to produce it, and for whom to produce?
• C) Given the fact that the economy is inefficient, how much and what type of government intervention should be used to improve the efficiency of the economy?
• D) What is the best rate of economic growth for a society?

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