I believe this is going to Marx since he was a communist while Keynes was just a Liberal.
Answer:
<u>Germany</u> and <u>Japan</u>
Explanation:
Financial intermediaries refer to the institutions which serve as a link between spenders and savers. Examples of financial intermediaries are banks, investment banks, pension funds, etc.
Securities markets refer to the markets which deal with the issuance of equity, debt and derivatives securities. Such issue of securities facilitates the raising of capital by businesses.
Direct finance usually takes place in capital markets dealing in securities with maturity period of more than an year, such as equity and bonds.
Indirect finance takes place through financial intermediaries such as banks, pension funds, etc. Such intermediaries remove the operation of middlemen between lenders and borrowers.
Germany and Japan have utilized their nation's bank credit based financial system.
The type of offer that is being made is TARGETED REPURCHASE.
Targeted repurchase refers to a method used by companies to prevent take over by a bidder. It involves asking a shareholder to sell back the company stocks to the company usually at a price that is higher than the current market price for the stocks. Companies use this strategy to buy back their stocks from a potential acquirer.
<span>Diminishing marginal returns - By investing in hiring an additional worker, Michelle does not receive twice the productivity compared to when she had only 1 worker. Productivity only increased by roughly 50%. I would consider the worker to be more of an investment, and thus count as diminishing marginal returns, rather than decreasing returns to scale, which I consider to apply more to assets, such as machines for manufacturing or in the case of the scenario, an additional kiln.</span>