The English economist William Stanley Jevons described a wor…

The English economist William Stanley Jevons described a world tour during the 1880s by a French​ singer, Mademoiselle Zelie. One stop on the tour was a theater in the Society​ Islands, part of French Polynesia in the South Pacific. She performed for her usual​ fee, which was​ one-third of the receipts. This turned out to be three​ pigs, 23​ turkeys, 44​ chickens, 5000​ coconuts, and​ “considerable quantities of​ bananas, lemons, and​ oranges.” She estimated that all of this would have had a value in France of 4000 francs. According to​ Jevons, “as Mademoiselle could not consume any considerable portion of the receipts​ herself, it became necessary in the meantime to feed the pigs and poultry with the​ fruit.”   (​Source: W. Stanley Jevons​, Money and the Mechanism of Exchange​, New​ York: D. Appleton and​ Company, 1889, pp.​ 1-2.) Do the goods Mademoiselle Zelie received as payment fulfill the three functions of money?  

At the end of 2021, a country’s national debt was $750 billi…

At the end of 2021, a country’s national debt was $750 billion. In 2022, the government spent $150 billion and ended the year with a debt of $795 billion. How much did the government receive in tax revenues in 2022? The government received $_____ billion in tax revenues in 2022.

Suppose that a simple economy produces only the following fo…

Suppose that a simple economy produces only the following four goods and services: shoes, hamburgers, shirts, and cotton. Further, assume that all of the cotton is used in the production of shirts. Use the information in the following table to calculate Nominal Gross Domestic Product (Nominal GDP) for 2019.     The Nominal GDP for the year 2019 is:

The English economist William Stanley Jevons described a wor…

The English economist William Stanley Jevons described a world tour during the 1880s by a French​ singer, Mademoiselle Zelie. One stop on the tour was a theater in the Society​ Islands, part of French Polynesia in the South Pacific. She performed for her usual​ fee, which was​ one-third of the receipts. This turned out to be three​ pigs, 23​ turkeys, 44​ chickens, 5000​ coconuts, and​ “considerable quantities of​ bananas, lemons, and​ oranges.” She estimated that all of this would have had a value in France of 4000 francs. According to​ Jevons, “as Mademoiselle could not consume any considerable portion of the receipts​ herself, it became necessary in the meantime to feed the pigs and poultry with the​ fruit.”   (​Source: W. Stanley Jevons​, Money and the Mechanism of Exchange​, New​ York: D. Appleton and​ Company, 1889, pp.​ 1-2.) Do the goods Mademoiselle Zelie received as payment fulfill the three functions of money?