The Former Soviet Union Consistently Increased the Amount of Capital

question 206

Multiple Choice

The former Soviet Union consistently increased the amount of capital available to its workers, but found that increases in capital resulted in progressively smaller and smaller increases in GDP per worker.This phenomenon is referred to as

• A)a rising standard of living.
• B)diminishing returns to capital.
• C)new growth theory.
• D)a shift of the per-worker production function.
• E)diseconomies of scale.

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