Economics

Introduction to Microeconomics

Question:

A farmer is getting more profit by producing opium rather than that of wheat. In situation of famine which crop should be produced?

Answer:

Production of wheat. Because in situation of famine, food grain like wheat is required more than opium. Value: Social welfare

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Introduction to Microeconomics

Q 1.

What is meant by economy?

Q 2.

Give two examples of growth of resources.

Q 3.

A country's resources are fully and p efficiently employed. The problem of scarcity exists. What advice would be given to raise the efficiency level of the human resource to fight scarcity?

Q 4.

What is economics?

Q 5.

Name any three variables of macroeconomics.

Q 6.

A doctor has a private clinic in New Delhi and his annual earnings are Rs 10 lakh. If he works in a government hospital in New Delhi, his annual earning will be Rs 8 lakh. What is the opportunity cost of having a clinic in New Delhi?

Q 7.

Explain the meaning of opportunity cost with the help of production possibility schedule.[CBSE, All India 2013]

Q 8.

Massive unemployment will shift PPC to the left. Defend or refute.

Q 9.

How does Maruti Udyog Ltd. fix the prices of its cars, is it studied in macroeconomics?

Q 10.

Which type of science is economics?

Q 11.

Give two examples of underutilisation of resources.

Q 12.

What is meant by economising of resources? [CBSE 2003]

Q 13.

Giving reason comment on the shape of Production Possibilities curve based on the following schedule.
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Q 14.

"An economy always produces on but not inside PPC. Defend or refute.

Q 15.

State the central problems of an economy. [CBSE Sample Paper 2014]

Q 16.

Giving reason comment on the shape of Production Possibilities Curve based on the following schedule.
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Q 17.

Economy always operates on PPC.

Q 18.

With the same amount of resources a farmer can feed the following combination of goats and horses:
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Taking into consideration the options available with him, find out the opportunity cost of the farmer of feeding one horse.

Q 19.

Define Production Possibility Curve and state its properties.[CBSE, All India 2013 C]

Q 20.

India is a labour abundance and capital scarce economy. Which technique of production should be used to produce the commodity?

Q 21.

Production in an economy is below to its potentiality due to unemployment. Government starts employment generation schemes. Explain its effects by using production possibility curve.
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Q 22.

As water resources are limited in our country, how can we economise the water resources so that it could not cause a future problem for us? Give any two suggestions.

Q 23.

Large number of technical training institutions have been started by the government. State its economic value in the context of production possibility frontier.

Q 24.

The government has started promoting foreign capital. What is its economic value in the context of Production Possibilities Frontier?

Q 25.

Why is production possibility curve also called opportunity cost curve?

Q 26.

Giving reason comment on the shape of Production Possibilities curve based on the following schedule.
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Q 27.

What does a rightward shift of production possibility curve indicate?[CBSE 2007]

Q 28.

Why PPC is concave to the point of origin? [CBSE 2011, AI 2007]

Q 29.

State any three assumptions on which a production possibilities curve is based. [CBSE 2013 Q]

Q 30.

Because of destruction caused by war, a country's PPF will shift to the left.

Q 31.

A job guarantee scheme will lead to a rightward shift of PPF.

Q 32.

If a PPF shifts to the right, the new PPF will be parallel to the original.

Q 33.

If the economy operates inside PPC, it shows full utilisation of resources.

Q 34.

PPC is concave shaped as production of one good can be increased only by reducing quantity of another good.

Q 35.

Give reasons for the following statements:

  1. Every economy has to make the decision relating to what to produce.
  2. Problem of choice arises because available resources have alternative uses.

Q 36.

Economic problem arises due to plenty of resources.

Q 37.

Economy can never operate outside PPC with the given resources and technology.

Q 38.

Scarcity of resources is a universal phenomenon and is not confined to poor and backward countries only. Comment.

Q 39.

Although water is useful, yet it is cheap. On the contrary, diamond is not much of use, still it is very expensive. Give an economic reason for this paradox.

Q 40.

Giving reason comment on the shape of Production Possibilities curve based on the following schedule. 
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Q 41.

What do you mean by the production possibilities of an economy?

Q 42.

Give one/two examples of microeconomics study.[CBSE 2004C, 09, 09C, 11C;AI 2004, 05, 07, 11]
Or
Name any three variables of micro-economics.

Q 43.

Only Scarce Goods' attract price."Comment.

Q 44.

In an underdeveloped economy why there is the need of efficient utilization of resources?

Q 45.

Name the economic value achievable when attempts are made to increase resources in the country.

Q 46.

Discuss the subject matter of economics.

Q 47.

Define Marginal Rate of Transformation (MRT). [CBSE 2012]

Q 48.

State any two central problems under ‘problem of allocation of resources’.[CBSE Sample Paper 2016]

Q 49.

Why do all economies have similar central problems?

Q 50.

Give reasons for the following statements:

  1. A Production Possibility Frontier is always a downward sloping concave curve.
  2. An efficient economy would always produce a combination of goods
    that lies on the given Production Possibility Frontier.
  3. Growth of an economy is represented in the form of a rightward shift of a Production Possibility Frontier.