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Chapter 1/What is Economics
Solution Manual for Macroeconomics Principles and Policy 13th Edition

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CHAPTER 1
WHAT IS ECONOMICS?
DISCUSSION QUESTIONS
1. Think about a way you would construct a model of how your college is governed. Which
officers and administrators would you include and exclude from your model if the
objective were one of the following:
a.To explain how decisions on financial aid are made
b.To explain the quality of the faculty
Relate this to the map example in the chapter.
This question is designed to make students construct their own version of the map
example. A good answer is one in which (i) the people who are principally involved in
the decision are identified, (ii) the flow of information and persuasion between those people
is outlined and (iii) extraneous detail is eliminated. The “model” is likely to be quite
different for part (a) and part (b). Thus decisions on financial aid may depend upon the
trustees, who set overall policy and attempt to raise funds; the president, who
allocates the college budget; the admissions office, which determines what portion of
each class is financially needy; and the counselors in the financial aid office, who make
decisions about individual cases. Information about policy flows from the top of the
bureaucratic hierarchy, and information about need from the bottom. In part (b), faculty
quality may be determined by the trustees, who may be responsible for setting salary levels;
the president or dean, who must agree to each faculty appointment and promotion; and the
faculty committees in each department and division, that search for potential appointees.
Instructors who assign this question may be amazed at the image of their institution’s
structure held by the students.
2. Relate the process of abstraction to the way you take notes in a lecture. Why do you not
try to transcribe every word uttered by the lecturer? Why don’t you write down just the
title of the lecture and stop there? How do you decide, roughly speaking, on the correct
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amount of detail?
Most students are familiar with the need to abstract from detail, and take notes only about
the essential points. The student will want enough detail to be able to reconstruct the
instructor’s argument, but not so much detail as to obscure the main point. It is unlikely
that simply writing down the title of the lecture will enable the student to recall the main
arguments at a later date. The choices of how much detail, and what particular detail, are
similar to the choices an economist makes in thinking about a problem, that is to say, in
constructing a model. [This is a good opportunity to discuss note-taking with the
students. While most understand the basic idea, few are skilled at it. Take a look at a few
students’ lecture notes, and ask whether you would be comfortable learning economics
from those notes.]
3. Explain why a government policy maker cannot afford to ignore economic theory.
Without theory, an economist (or anyone else) can only assemble facts, but she cannot
understand the relationship between those facts, in particular the cause-and-effect
relationships. For example, a person who ignores theory can notice that average prices
sometimes rise a short time after the country’s money supply increases, but has no way of
knowing whether there is a causal relationship between those two phenomena, or whether
they are just coincidences. A government policy maker who wants to change something
in the country only has a few policy “tools” to use, and so she must have a theory to indicate
to her whether changing one of those tools is likely to have the desired result in the country.
APPENDIX—USING GRAPHS: A REVIEW
TEST YOURSELF
1. Portray the following hypothetical data on a two variable diagram:
Academic Year Total Enrollment Enrollment in
Economics Courses
2008–2009 3,000 300
2009–2010 3,100 325
2010–2011 3,200 350
2011–2012 3,300 375
2012–2013 3,400 400
Measure the slope of the resulting line, and explain what this number means
Slope is 100 interpreted as 100 new students each academic year.
Slope is 25 interpreted as 25 new economics students each academic year.
2. From Figure 5, calculate the slope of the curve at point M.

Slope is 0.
3. Colin believes that the number of job offers he will get depends on the number of
courses in which his grade is B+ or better. He concludes from observation that the
following figures are typical:
Number of grades of B+ 0 1 2 3 4
or better
Number of job offers 1 3 4 5 6
Put these numbers into a graph like Figure 1(a). Measure and interpret the slopes between
adjacent dots.
A marginal increase in the number of job offers is relatively larger with the first good grade
compared to additional good grades.
4. In Figure 6, determine the values of X and Y at point K and at point E . What do you
conclude about the slopes of the lines on which K and E are located?
K = (2,2); E = (2,1)
The slope of 1 for the line on which K is located indicates that this is the steeper of the
two curves. On this curve, the variable on the vertical axis responds more significantly to
a change in the variable on the horizontal axis.
5. In Figure 8, interpret the economic meaning of points A and B. What do the two
points have in common? What is the difference in their economic interpretation?
A => 30 hours labor and 40 yds. cloth = 20 units of output.

B => 40 hours labor and 28 yds. cloth = 20 units of output.
Common: 20 units of output; Difference: Amount of labor and cloth charge—more labor,
less cloth.

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Chapter 1/What is Economics

Solution Manual for Macroeconomics Principles and Policy 13th Edition

APPENDIX—USING GRAPHS: A REVIEW

Slope is 100 interpreted as 100 new students each academic year.

Slope is 25 interpreted as 25 new economics students each academic year.

2. From Figure 5, calculate the slope of the curve at point M.

A => 30 hours labor and 40 yds. cloth = 20 units of output.

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