Calicut University Model Question Papers BA Economics

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Calicut University Model Question Papers BA Economics:

1. The curve showing the possibilities of production of desired good is known as:
(A) Indifference curve (B) Production possibility curve
(C) Revealed preference curve (D) None of these

2. Which one of the following definition of Economics is associated with the name of Lionel Robbins?
(A) Welfare definition (B) Scarcity definition
(C) Growth definition (D) Wealth definition

3. A hypothesis is tested by:
(A) The realism of its assumptions
(B) The lack of realism of its assumptions
(C) Its ability to predict accurately an outcome that follows logically from the assumptions
(D) None of these

4. In a free enterprise economy, the problems of what, how and for whom to produce are solved by :
(A) A Planning Committee
(B) The Price mechanism
(C) The Planning Commission
(D) None of these.

5. Who considered Political Economy as an enquiry into the nature and causes of the wealth of nations?
(A) Adam Smith (B) J.B.Say
(C) Marshall (D) Keynes
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6. Which of the following definitions of Economics include the economic concept of scales of Preferences?
(A) Wealth definition (B) Welfare definition
(C) Scarcity definition (D) Growth definition

7. Which of the following embodies a more widely accepted definition of economics?
(A) Science of material welfare
(B) Science of wealth
(C) A study of mankind in the ordinary business of life
(D) Science of making choice.

8. The fundamental problem faced by an economy is one of :
(A) Exchange
(B) Decision making by the government
(C) Economic welfare
(D) Scarcity of resources and multiplicity of wants.

9. Production possibilities curve does not show:
(A) What to produce
(B) How to produce
(C) For whom to produce
(D) Productive potential under conditions of underemployment

10. State whether Economics is :
(A) A positive science only
(B) Neither a positive science
(C) A science but not art
(D) A science or an art depending on who uses Economics and for what purpose.

11. Who of the following emphasized the normative aspect of Economics as a science?
(A) The English classical school
(B) Lionel Robbins
(C) The German historical school
(D) None of these.

12. Of the following economists who is considered as master of partial analysis?
(A) Alfred Marshall (B) A.C.Pigou
(C) J.M.Keynes (D) J.S.Mill


13. Find out the correct statement:
(A) Deductive method descends from general to the particular
(B) Inductive method descends from general to the particular
(B) The classical economists stood for inductive method
(D) Deductive method depends on experimentation.
14. Which of the following statements has been drawn by inductive method?
(A) A consumer will buy from the cheapest market
(B) All businessmen wish to buy at low price and sell at high price
(C) A private firm will try to maximize its profits
(D) The larger the stock of money with a person, the lower is the utility that he
derives from it.
15. What is true for deductive method?
(A) Abstract
(B) Realistic
(C) Economic conditions assumed to be changing
(D) Supported by historical school.
16. What is true for inductive method?
(A) Hypothetical (B) Empirical
(C) Ignores experimentation (D) Static
17. Find out the correct statement:
(A) Prediction of economic models cannot be refuted by empirical evidence
(B) Models transform verbal expressions in to more scientific expressions
(C) Models make no assumptions
(D) Economic models are comprehensive and not partial
18. Micro economic theory studies how a free enterprise economy determines:
(A) The Price of goods (B) The price of services
(C) The price of resources (D) All of these.
19. Which aspect of taxation involves normative economics?
(A) The incidence of the tax
(B) The fairness of the tax
(C) The effect of the tax on incentives to work
(D) All of the above
20. Microeconomics deals primarily with:
(A) Comparative statics, general equilibrium and positive economics
(B) Comparative statics, partial equilibrium and normative economics
(C) Dynamics, partial equilibrium and positive economics
(D) Comparative statics, partial equilibrium and positive economics.

21. Which of the following is incorrect?
(A) Microeconomics is concerned primarily with the problem of what , how
and for whom to produce
(B) Microeconomics is concerned primarily with the economic behavior of
individual decision making units when at equilibrium
(C) Microeconomics is concerned primarily with the time path and processes
by which one equilibrium position evolves into another
(D) Microeconomics is concerned primarily with comparative statics rather
than dynamics.
22. Which of the following statements is most closely associated with general equilibrium
analysis?
(A) Everything depends on everything else
(B) The equilibrium price of a factor depends on the balancing of the forces of
demand and supply for that factor
(C) The equilibrium price of a good or service depends on the balancing of the
forces of demand and supply for that good or service
(D) None of these
23. The meaning of the word ‘economic’ is most closely associated with the word:
(A) Free (B) Scarce
(C) Unlimited (D) Unrestricted
24. The market equilibrium for a commodity is determined by
(A) The market demand for the commodity
(B) The market supply of the commodity
(C) The balancing of the forces of demand and supply for the commodity
(D) Any of these
25. Microeconomics studies the decision making behavior of:
(A) Society as a whole (B) An individual or household
(C) A group of individuals (D) Economy as a whole
26. The word micro was first used in Economics by:
(A) Keynes (B) Ragnar Frisch
(C) J.R.Hicks (D) Marshall
27. A function refers to :
(A) The demand for a commodity
(B) The supply of a commodity
(C) The demand and supply of a commodity service or resource
(D) The relationship between one dependent variable and one or more
independent variables.
28. The validity of an economic theory is judged by its power to:
(A) Explain an economic phenomenon
(B) Predict the course of an economic phenomenon
(C) Prove or disprove a hypothesis
(D) Reveal the economic laws
29. The subject matter of economics is the study of:
(A) Wealth (B) Welfare
(C) Scarcity (D) Scarcity and Choice
30. To whom do you attribute the growth definition of economics?
(A) Paul Samuelson (B) Lionel Robbins
(C) Milton Friedman (D) Alfred Marshall

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