9. Statistics show that (the budget constraint / the number) of working women with young children is constantly growing in the USA today.
10. Ai increase in consumer expenditure usually (follows/results in) an equivalent rise in the income of consumers.
17. Составьте все возможные словосочетания из слов в левой и правой колонках и переведите их.
additional – utility, demand, substitute, maximization, expenditure, unit, assumption, budget, constraints, relationship
constant, maximum, utility, additional, equal, complementary – expenditure
unit, complementary, maximum, additional, particular, choice – goods
to maintain, to prefer, to depend on, to result in, to maximize, to affect – relationship
18. Составьте предложения из двух подходящих по смыслу частей.
1. Increase in the utility of one good can compensate
2. Equilibrium price is the price at which
3. The marginal utility of a good is the increase in
4. There are different ways
5. Over 60 percent of the capital of all US firms is in agro-industry
6. Higher expenditure on foreign goods rather than on the goods produced at home
7. Rising incomes result in
8. Per capita income in the United States
a. the quantity demanded is equal to the quantity supplied.
b. to restrict import expenditure.
c. that is, industry based on agricultural products.
d. an absolute fall of demand for inferior goods.
e. is still higher than in Japan.
f. the utility obtained by consuming one more unit of that good.
g. the reduction in utility of another good.
h. will increase demand for foreign goods.
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19. Переведите следующие предложения, обращая внимание на словосочетания из словарного минимума к текстуTheory of Demand.
1. These two goods are good substitutes.
2. The problem of the consumer is to choose the particular goods and services within the limits imposed by his budget.
3. If the consumer wants to maintain a constant maximum utility and at the same time obtain more of a good, he should decide the consumption of which other good has to be reduced.
4. The relationship between utility and the goods consumed depends on the social, physiological, demographic and other characteristics of the particular consumer.
5. Budget constraint means that your expenditures for all the goods consumed must be equal to your income.