Classical Political-Economics | Neoclassical and Keynesian Economists | Economic History | Real world Economics | Paying rent |
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What is quantitative utility?
Jeremy Bentham and J.S. Mill believed in different theories of utility. While J.S. Mill believed in qualitative utility, Jeremy Bentham believed in _____________.
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Individuals
While classical 'political-economists' tended to view the economy as being composed of social classes, neoclassical economists tend to view the economy as being composed of...
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What is average income per capita growth in Western Europe from 1000 to 1500 AD/CE?
0.12% per year.
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What is one effect of sectoral labor-management bargaining covering over three quarters of the Swedish workforce?
The reason Swedish labor unions and business associations are content with not having a minimum wage law.
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What are Treasury Bonds, CDs, and (to a lesser extent) IRAs?
Three kinds of investment that tend to be very stable and secure, but which also involve fewer gains.
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What is Smith's definition of natural price?
"When the price of any commodity is neither more nor less than what is sufficient to pay the rent of the land, the wages of the labour, and the profits of the stock employed in raising, preparing, and bringing it to market, according to actual rates, the commodity is then sold for what may be its"
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Who are William Stanley Jevons, Carl Menger, Alfred Marshall and Leon Walras?
In the 2nd half of the 19th Century, these four thinkers forever altered the discipline of "political-economy" – changing its name to "economics", making the discipline much more mathematical?
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What was average per capita income growth from 1960 to 1980 in "more advanced economies."
3.2% per year.
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What is Krueger and Card?
This groundbreaking 1992 study found no correlation between minimum wage hikes and employment outcomes?
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What are stocks a.k.a. STONKS? (Not sure how that caught on.)
Investments that tend to offer greater opportunities for both making gains and losses?
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Who is Ibn Khaldun?
The first economist to formulate a labor theory of value.
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What is the marginal theory of utility?
If you have four slices of pizza, the fourth slice will be of less value to you than the first according to?
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What is, raising protective tariffs?
Sir Robert Walpole, Alexander Hamilton, and Otto von Bismarck all did this.
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What is balance of payments?
The state of a country's position in economic transactions with the rest of the world.
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What is four?
You are making $968 a month after taxes. You find a two bedroom apartment costs $1,000 a. month. The number of room-mates you'll need in order for the rent to be roughly (a bit over) a quarter of your income.
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What is Marx's theory of surplus labor value?
Let us say that a businessperson/employer pays the legitimate market price for rent, tools, machinery and labor. Suppose that a worker could produce enough to cover the cost of tools, machinery and daily wages in 6 hours. By having the worker put in a 12 hour day rather than a 6 hour day, the employer gains a profit, according to _________ theory of __________.
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Who is John Maynard Keynes?
In the 1930s, this economist argued in favor of counter cyclical macroeconomic policy.
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What is developed for military purposes?
Synthetic rubber, computers, electronics, radar, jet engines, and microwaves all used technologies that were _________.
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What is indicative planning?
France, Japan and South Korea all engaged in this kind of planning, distinct from Soviet bloc 'directive' central planning.
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What is 25 to 30 %?
Personal finance advisors say that rent should take up, at most ____ to ____% of income
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What is comparative advantage, as formulated by David Ricardo?
If Portugal needs 80 men to produce wine and 90 men to produce cloth, and if England needed 100 men to produce cloth and 120 men to produce wine, Portugal would have an absolute advantage in wine and cloth. England would still have a ________ _______ in cloth.
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What are private sector banks, private mints and the market?
While Milton Friedman and the Monetarists believed that currency should be controlled by the state, Frederich Hayek and the Austrians believed that money should be controlled by _______.
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What is the phrase, "There is no alternative."
TINA stands for this famous phrase of Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher.
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What was the fixed exchange rate under Bretton Woods?
$35 an ounce.
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What is the cost of food?
A part of your monthly budget that is crucial for survival that could cost you around $312.65 a month in the Atlanta area.
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