2. Object with the infinitive

1. We watch the individual consumers’ behavior evolve in an unpredictable way.

2. He declared the Government measures to be successful.

3. They did not want you to see how simple the scheme was.

4. Classical economists considered self-interest to be at the heart of human motivation.

5. Experience shows consumers to behave quite erratically.

6. We want these measures to be introduced before the end of the year.

7. We know taxpayers to have strong opinions about Government’s failure to reduce taxes.

8. Many citizens would prefer to believe elected officials to selflessly pursue the “public good” rather than narrow selfish goals.

9. Prof. Steven Kelman from Harvard argues narrow self-interest to be unable to explain the War on Poverty of the 1960s or the deregulation movement of the 1980s.

10. Keynes considered Government’s intervention in the country’s economy to be inevitable if it was to function in a predictable way.

11. Under the Reagan administration, most observers concluded a 6 percent unemployment rate to be full employment.

12. The Title III Section of the Helms-Burton law considers Cuba to be US permanent property.

3.

1. There are calls for our resources to be spent on housing.

2. It took too long for the Government to introduce these measures.

3. For this theory to be accepted, it must explain better the workings of our economy.

4. It was quite usual for these things to happen in financial markets.

5. They called for the area to be turned into a free trade zone.

6. For this theory to be true it must predict some relevant events.

7. Classical economists saw no need for the government to intervene in the country’s economy.

8. For our productive resources to be fully utilized — full employment is a desirable goal.

9. For this inflation rate to be achieved, the government had to undertake drastic measures to cut the money supply.

4. Infinitives as clauses of purpose.

1. To understand how prices are affected by the factors of production, we have to analyze a number of options.

2. In order to show the ability and willingness of producers to sell their products, the economists use market supply curve.

3. The Government offers price guarantees for certain crops to stabilize farmer’s income.

4. To produce all goods envisaged by the Government decision, we must have free access to the factors of production.

5. The taxes people pay are used by the Government to purchase scarce resources.

6. To rely on these data, we must see and measure them.

7. In order to distinguish physical changes in output from monetary changes, we compute both nominal and real GNP.

8. To answer this question, we have to know something about prices.

9. Producers must charge higher prices to recover the higher costs that accompany increased capacity utilization.

10. To appreciate the significance of macro equilibrium, suppose that another price or output level existed.

11. In order for them to be eligible, their product is to be of better quality and, at least, of comparable price.