"If education is provided free of charge to (some or all) students, someone else has to foot the bill. In most cases, this would be the government and thus, by implication, the taxpayer. In the 2018/2019 budget of the South African government, the additional allocation to subsidise higher education and training fully for poor and working-class students amounted to R12.4 billion. In 2019 and 2020, it is estimated it will amount to R20.3 billion and R24.3 billion, respectively." 1.24 Assuming that education and healthcare are the only expenditure items on the governments budget (and are represented by a production possibilities curve), the increase of the above above subsidy represents... a) A movement along the production possibilities frontier. b) A movement towards the production possibilities frontier c) An outward movement of the production possibilities frontier d) An inward movement of the production possibilities frontier
"If education is provided free of charge to (some or all) students, someone else has to foot the bill. In most cases, this would be the government and thus, by implication, the taxpayer. In the 2018/2019 budget of the South African government, the additional allocation to subsidise higher education and training fully for poor and working-class students amounted to R12.4 billion. In 2019 and 2020, it is estimated it will amount to R20.3 billion and R24.3 billion, respectively." 1.24 Assuming that education and healthcare are the only expenditure items on the governments budget (and are represented by a production possibilities curve), the increase of the above above subsidy represents... a) A movement along the production possibilities frontier. b) A movement towards the production possibilities frontier c) An outward movement of the production possibilities frontier d) An inward movement of the production possibilities frontier
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Please answer 1.24
![1.23
"The world in which we live is complex and to understand it, human beings make use of some or
other simplification process. A theory can accordingly be seen as an attempt to simplify things.
Such an observation may come as a surprise to those who have often heard remarks to the effect
that such and such a theory is difficult, or at the least terribly complicated. We should nevertheless
remind ourselves that a theory involves an attempt to simplify things – it is the world out there that
is the complicated entity. A particular theory (or model) is merely trying to reduce it to manageable
proportions, at least as far as understanding our environment is concerned."
In economics, theory is presented in a simple form by making the...
a)
Post hoc assumption
b)
Fallacy of composition
c)
Ceteris paribus assumption
d) Blinkered approach
"If education is provided free of charge to (some or all) students, someone else has to foot the bill.
In most cases, this would be the government and thus, by implication, the taxpayer. In the
2018/2019 budget of the South African government, the additional allocation to subsidise higher
education and training fully for poor and working-class students amounted to R12.4 billion. In 2019
and 2020, it is estimated it will amount to R20.3 billion and R24.3 billion, respectively."
1.24
Assuming that education and healthcare are the only expenditure items on the governments budget (and are
represented by a production possibilities curve), the increase of the above above subsidy represents...
a)
A movement along the production possibilities frontier.
b)
A movement towards the production possibilities frontier
c)
An outward movement of the production possibilities frontier
d) An inward movement of the production possibilities frontier](/v2/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcontent.bartleby.com%2Fqna-images%2Fquestion%2Ffb3132ff-eb26-4429-8893-61e5aa39d1f3%2Fdcb017cb-2110-4f0c-adcd-4e369a4744c9%2Fpiv2vr_processed.jpeg&w=3840&q=75)
Transcribed Image Text:1.23
"The world in which we live is complex and to understand it, human beings make use of some or
other simplification process. A theory can accordingly be seen as an attempt to simplify things.
Such an observation may come as a surprise to those who have often heard remarks to the effect
that such and such a theory is difficult, or at the least terribly complicated. We should nevertheless
remind ourselves that a theory involves an attempt to simplify things – it is the world out there that
is the complicated entity. A particular theory (or model) is merely trying to reduce it to manageable
proportions, at least as far as understanding our environment is concerned."
In economics, theory is presented in a simple form by making the...
a)
Post hoc assumption
b)
Fallacy of composition
c)
Ceteris paribus assumption
d) Blinkered approach
"If education is provided free of charge to (some or all) students, someone else has to foot the bill.
In most cases, this would be the government and thus, by implication, the taxpayer. In the
2018/2019 budget of the South African government, the additional allocation to subsidise higher
education and training fully for poor and working-class students amounted to R12.4 billion. In 2019
and 2020, it is estimated it will amount to R20.3 billion and R24.3 billion, respectively."
1.24
Assuming that education and healthcare are the only expenditure items on the governments budget (and are
represented by a production possibilities curve), the increase of the above above subsidy represents...
a)
A movement along the production possibilities frontier.
b)
A movement towards the production possibilities frontier
c)
An outward movement of the production possibilities frontier
d) An inward movement of the production possibilities frontier
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