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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Contradictions of Joseph Schumpeter.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who started New Lanark?
(a) Count Henri de Rouvroy de Saint-Simone.
(b) Robert Owen.
(c) The Duke of York.
(d) Charles Fourier.

2. Most of the featured economists could never master _________. (fill in the blank)
(a) Wall Street.
(b) Their personal lives.
(c) The social world.
(d) Their personal finances.

3. What did Veblen call individual churches?
(a) Places of ill repute.
(b) Retail outlets.
(c) Houses of God.
(d) Time wasters.

4. Eighteenth-century England thought the population to be somewhere around 5.5 million people, and it was not expected to double for approximately how many years?
(a) Six hundred years.
(b) Two hundred years.
(c) Seven hundred years.
(d) Five hundred years.

5. Dr. Richard Price felt that the population had declined by how much?
(a) 20%.
(b) 50%.
(c) 10%.
(d) 30%.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was Henry George a believer in?

2. One of the featured economists was never more than what?

3. At the beginning of the 1800's, England had two strong classes emerge; an _________ class and an agricultural class. (fill in the blank)

4. Mill's book pointed out that the true province of economic law was production, not _________. (fill in the blank)

5. Having spent some time in South Africa, Hobson returned to England and wrote what book?

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