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The Stability of Macroeconomic Equilibrium
An economy is in a state where firms have set their profit-maximizing prices and wages, and workers have chosen the best jobs they can find under the current economic conditions. Explain why this situation is considered a 'sustainable equilibrium' with no internal pressure for the overall levels of prices and wages to change.
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Assessing Economic Stability
An economy is described as being in a stable state where firms are setting prices and wages to maximize their profits, and workers are making the best employment choices they can, given the available opportunities. As a result, there is no general tendency for wages or prices to change. Which of the following conditions is also consistent with this description of a sustainable equilibrium?
In an economy considered to be in a sustainable equilibrium, where firms are maximizing profits and workers are choosing the best jobs available to them, the level of involuntary unemployment must be zero.
The Stability of Macroeconomic Equilibrium