Due: Midnight, June 05, 2022 From Chapter One and Two 1. Go to "Federal Reserve Economic Data" (also known as FRED) at St. Louis Federal Reserve Bank and then graph the following series from 1950 to present. a. Federal Receipts as Percent of Gross Domestic Product b. Federal Net Outlays as Percent of Gross Domestic Product c. Federal Debt: Total Public Debt as Percent of Gross Domestic Product 2. One rationale for imposing taxes on cigarette consumption is that people who smoke impose negative spillovers on the rest of society-for example, through higher medical costs and secondhand smoking. If this rationale is correct, in the absence of governmental taxation, will people tend to smoke too much, too little, or the right amount of cigarettes? 3. To make college more affordable for students from families with fewer resources, a government has proposed allowing the student of any family with less than $50,000 in savings to attend a public university for free. Discuss the direct and possible indirect effects of such a policy. 4. You have $100 to spend on food and clothing. The price of food is $4 and the price of clothing is $10. a. Graph your budget constraint. b. Suppose that the government subsidizes food such that each unit of food is half-price, up to the first 10 units of food. Graph your budget constraint in this circumstance. c. Will you and others be well-off from this subsidy? Use indifference curves on the old and new budget constraints to answer this. 5. Because the free market (competitive) equilibrium maximizes social efficiency, why would the government ever intervene in an economy? 6. Consider a free market with demand equal to Q-800-10P and supply equal to Q = 10P. a. What is the value of consumer surplus? b. What is the value of producer surplus