It Is Not Completely Accurate to Assume That Government Spending

question 25

Multiple Choice

It is not completely accurate to assume that government spending is exogenous because

• A) some government spending is controlled by automatic policy rules that depend on current economic conditions.
• B) some government spending is adjusted at the discretion of policy makers, who observe conditions across the economy and react.
• C) it is, to a significant degree, controlled by politicians who want to continue to be elected and therefore respond to the will of the people.
• D) all of the above.
• E) none of the above.

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