Which of the Following Groups of Economists Is Most Likely

question 31

Multiple Choice

Which of the following groups of economists is most likely to favor annually balanced federal budgets?

• A) Mainstream economists.
• B) Supply-side economists.
• C) Rational expectations economists.
• D) Functional finance economists.

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Definitions:

Mean

The arithmetic average of a set of values, calculated by dividing the sum of the values by the number of values.

Variance

The average of the squared differences from the Mean, providing a measure of how spread out numbers are in a dataset.

Data

Factual information, especially numerical or categorical, used as a basis for reasoning, discussion, or calculation.

Interquartile Range

The difference between the 75th and 25th percentiles of a data set, indicating the spread of the middle 50% of values.