What are the four factors of production and what are the remunerations to each of these called?
The four factors of production are:
Land – It denotes the natural resources like air, water, soil, etc. The payment that is paid by the firms to acquire these services is called rent.
Labour – It refers to the physical and mental effort required to do a work. For example, engineer, manager, worker, etc. The payment made to the labour in exchange of his/her services are called wages.
Capital – It refers to the monetary investments and physical and tangible investments like machinery, buildings, technology, tools, etc. which assists in the production process. The payment received in exchange of these services is called interest.
Entrepreneur – It refers to the individual who undertakes the risk to organise the production process. Entrepreneurs are the risk takers and often are the innovators of new techniques. They receive profit in exchange for their entrepreneurship. The remunerations paid to the factors of productions are called factor payments or factor incomes. These are the aggregation of rent, wage, interest and profit.
Differentiate between devaluation and depreciation.
What is a barter system? What are its drawbacks?
Write down some of the limitations of using GDP as an index of welfare of a country.
Explain the relation between government deficit and government debt.
From the following data, calculate Personal Income and Personal Disposable Income.
Rs (crore)
(a) Net Domestic Product at factor cost 8,000
(b) Net Factor Income from abroad 200
(c) Undisbursed Profit 1,000
(d) Corporate Tax 500
(e) Interest Received by Households 1,500
(f) Interest Paid by Households 1,200
(g) Transfer Income 300
(h) Personal Tax 500
Why should the aggregate final expenditure of an economy be equal to the aggregate factor payments? Explain.
Give the relationship between the revenue deficit and the fiscal deficit.
Discuss the issue of deficit reduction.
Are fiscal deficits inflationary?
What is the difference between ex ante investment and ex post investment?
Differentiate between balance of trade and current account balance.
Give the relationship between the revenue deficit and the fiscal deficit.
What is the marginal propensity to import when M = 60 + 0.06Y? What is the relationship between the marginal propensity to import and the aggregate demand function?
Explain the relation between government deficit and government debt.
Why should the aggregate final expenditure of an economy be equal to the aggregate factor payments? Explain.
Discuss the issue of deficit reduction.
What are the important features of a capitalist economy?
Suppose C = 100 + 0.75Y D, I = 500, G = 750, taxes are 20 per cent of income, X = 150, M = 100 + 0.2Y . Calculate equilibrium income, the budget deficit or surplus and the trade deficit or surplus.
What role of RBI is known as ‘lender of last resort’?
Suppose C = 40 + 0.8Y D, T = 50, I = 60, G = 40, X = 90, M = 50 + 0.05Y
(a) Find equilibrium income. (b) Find the net export balance at equilibrium income (c) What happens to equilibrium income and the net export balance when the government purchases increase from 40 and 50?