The Worldly Philosophers Quiz | Eight Week Quiz E

This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 113 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.

The Worldly Philosophers Quiz | Eight Week Quiz E

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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Savage Society of Thorstein Veblen.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Heilbroner says the work of economist is both exciting and _________. (fill in the blank)
(a) Boring.
(b) Inconsequential.
(c) Controversial.
(d) Dangerous.

2. Where was New Harmony located?
(a) London.
(b) Manchester.
(c) Indiana.
(d) New York.

3. Mill's book pointed out that the true province of economic law was production, not _________. (fill in the blank)
(a) Distribution.
(b) Factories.
(c) Wages.
(d) Profits.

4. What is the biggest danger facing a modern community?
(a) Economics.
(b) Human unpredictability.
(c) Excommunication.
(d) Human predictability.

5. _________ was based on true wealth only being created in agriculture. (fill in the blank)
(a) Agricracy.
(b) Macroeconomics.
(c) Physiocracy.
(d) Laissez-faire.

Short Answer Questions

1. What are economists considered by the rules of schoolboy history books?

2. According to Mills, there would be a gradual disappearance of what?

3. Francis Ysidro Edgeworth was a graduate of what university?

4. What is production dependent upon?

5. Heilbroner begins the book by saying it is limited to a small number of men who did more for history with _________ than famous men did. (fill in the blank)

(see the answer key)

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