A Fundamental Difficulty with Many Proposals to Increase GDP Is

question 165

Multiple Choice

A fundamental difficulty with many proposals to increase GDP is that these proposals

• A) attempt to increase GDP at the expense of other things people value.
• B) attempt to increase GDP and other things people care about.
• C) are made by vested interest groups.
• D) are made by non-economists.
• E) do not recognize the problem of scarcity.

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