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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. Where did Keynes attend college?
(a) Cambridge.
(b) Yale.
(c) Eton.
(d) Oxford.

2. The followers of Saint-Simone proposed an end to _________. (fill in the blank)
(a) Industrial production.
(b) Villages of Cooperation.
(c) Private property.
(d) Democracy.

3. Whose work was Schumpeter more familiar with than any other Western economists?
(a) Veblen.
(b) Smith.
(c) Marx.
(d) Keynes.

4. What nationality was Veblen's family?
(a) Norwegian.
(b) British.
(c) Dutch.
(d) Swedish.

5. 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) Five hundred years.
(c) Two hundred years.
(d) Seven hundred years.

Short Answer Questions

1. While in prison, who did Saint-Simone claim appeared to him, telling him to become a philosopher?

2. Keynes was involved in what important conference after World War II?

3. What does Heilbroner think is strange about ancient civilizations?

4. Marx's radicalism was ____________ rather than political. (fill in the blank)

5. Critics of Edgeworth pointed to ____________ as evidence that man did not always act on his own behalf. (fill in the blank)

(see the answer key)

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