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WorksheetsEconomics #2
Total questions: 70
Worksheet time: 27mins
Euro, currency of most European nations
Yuan, Chinese currency symbol
peso, Mexican currency symbol
dollar sign United States currency symbol
Careful to get a bargain. Careful to get quality.
Spending other people's money on other people
Spending other people's money on oneself
Spending your money on other people
spending you money on oneself
Careless about bargains. Careless about quality. Just don't care. Looking for a political advantage.
Spending one's money on oneself
Spending one's money on other people
Spending other people's money on other people
Spending other people's money on oneself.
Care about quality. Do not care about getting a bargain
Spending one's money on oneself
Spending one's money on other people
Spending other people's money on oneself
Spending other people's money on other people
Don't care about about quality. Care only about a bargain.
Spending your money on yourself
Spending your money on other people
Spending other people's money on other people
Spending other people's money on oneself
John C. Fremont
Abe Lincoln
A college student who graduated with a degree in sociology is likely to see
creation in the economy
destruction in the economy
creation and destruction in the economy
despair in the swimming pool
Entrepreneurs and people with work experience from their teenage years onward, and who did not go to college are likely to understand
creation and destruction in the economy
creation in the economy
destruction in the economy
consanguinity in shopping malls
horse
goat
sheep
new hair styles
Ludwig von Mises
Milton Friedman
F.A. Hayek
Walter Williams
According to Karl Marx the last stage before the Communist paradise was:
primitive (Mesolithic) communism of hunter-gatherers
Agricultural Empires
Medieval Period with the feudal system
Capitalist Era with workers and entrepreneurs
According to Karl Marx this factor of production is both totally unnecessary and exploits the workers. (naturally, he was wrong)
land (resources)
capital (money and the things that money buy, buildings, machines)
labor (workers and contractors)
entrepreneurs
When we have socialism people will wake up and feel the need to help with garbage collection and they'll do that, then they'll feel the need to write poetry and they'll do that.
impossibility of calculation ignored by socialists
incentive problem ignored by socialists.
If there is no private property and no free market there is no way to put an informative price on anything. There is no way for consumers and producers to work out a good way to ration scarce resources - via social appraisal.
incentive problem
impossibility of calculation
Soviet Gosplan demands tons of nails (this has nothing to do with the nails that are actually needed)
big nails
little nails
The Soviet Gosplan demand large numbers of nails (this has nothing to do with the nails that are actually needed)
big nails
little nails
Milton Friedman
Walter Williams
Thomas Sowell
the Bridge
the Certifier
the Enforcer
Gorbachev asked Thatcher "How do you make certain that the people are fed?" Margaret Thatcher responded ---
I don't the market does that
I cook for them and they like it
Brits are too fat anyway
Command and control economies do not work because:
it disengages all mind and people cannot participate in appraising the value of goods and services
it engages all hearts and mind in utopian schemes that work well because intentions are pure
--- is freer and wealthier than ---.
Australia, North Korea
North Korea, Australia
The engagement of all minds that creates social appraisal and market price that creates a rationing most of us can agree with.
Command and control and the Gosplan (centrally planned economies)
Free market capitalism
Starvation, human caused shortages, death and extreme poverty
Command and control economies
free market capitalism
This person will be able and willing to complain about capitalism without understanding the productive capacities of capitalism.
engineering student
medical student
business student and entrepreneur
political science student
Trade is made of ---
win
thumb tacks
Free market capitalism ---
has made the rich get richer and the poor get richer too.
has made the rich get poorer and the poor get poorer too
has made the rich get richer and the poor get poorer
has made the rich use tooth brushes and the poor use dental floss
Milton Friedman
Hernando de Soto
Walter Williams
Thomas Sowell
As price goes up demand goes ---
down
up
As the price of a good or resource goes up suppliers are willing to provide ---
less
more
Williams Triangle
Friedman Triangle
Hayek Triangle
Sowell Triangle
In a free market with free banking, during a recession it is best to
invest back in production time because interest rate, labor, and resources are a bargain
invest in retail only because all of the factors of production are expensive.
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
People's Republic of China
Cuba
National Socialist Germany (1933-1945)
The duck and goose dance
Mr. Robinson's sock drawer
The official BCHS prom dance (all night long)
Green Party debates
Versailles
Dallas stadium
Empire State Building
Taj Mahal
Hernando de Soto (the economist)
Walter Williams
Jean Baptist Say
F.A. Hayek
Walter Williams
Thomas Sowell
Milton Friedman
Mike Pence
Donald Trump
Tulsi Gabbard
Frank Zappa
Adam and Eve
Adam Smith
Supreme Court Building
the White House
the Lincoln Memorial
Capitol Hill
the White House
the Supreme Court Building
the Jefferson Memorial
the Jefferson Memorial
the Radio Tower
the Evil Tower
the Tower of London
the Eiffel Tower
Egyptian Pyramid (Giza)
Aztec Pyramid
Mayan Pyramid
Taco Tuesday
Capitol Hill
the Supreme Court Building
the White House
the Hohenzollern Palace
Barrack Obama
Ronald Reagan
Donald Duck
Donald Trump
Tulsi Gabbard
Elizabeth Warren
Hillary Clinton
Susan Smith
There is a man who wants to ask a woman he's met for a date. He discovers that she likes film noir, Moroccan food, and moonlite walks.
These two items are scarce and can be bought in the market.
Moroccan food
Film Noir (Humphrey Bogart Film)
Moonlite walk
Spontaneous orders --3--
snowflakes
termite mounds
free market economies
command and control economies
Rent control causes --- and the minimum wage causes ---
housing shortages, unemployment
unemployment, housing shortages
It is important to pay people enough so that they will continue to do important, difficult work that requires intelligence and conscientiousness.
thee is no such thing as a free lunch
incentive matter
Revolutionized transportation lowering the cost to 1/7 of ferry travel, ocean going travel and railroad travel. Refused to take government subsidies because he saw that as corruption.
Cornelius Vanderbilt
Henry Ford
Andrew Carnegie
John D. Rockefeller
Lowered the cost of kerosine to 1/10 the previous price. Created 100 products from oil, invented the oil pipeline, the oil tanker car (railroad) and oil refineries. He probably save the whales.
Henry Ford
John D. Rockefeller
Cornelius Vanderbilt
Andrew Carnegie
Created consistently perfect quality steel at 1/10 the price. Made skyscrapers and safe railroads possible. Lower the cost of consistently high quality steel for 1/10 the price.
Andrew Carnegie
Henry Ford
Cornelius Vanderbilt
John D. Rockefeller
Did not invent the automobile. He invented the affordable automobile.
Cornelius Vanderbilt
Henry Ford
Andrew Carnegie
John D. Rockefeller
Bernie Sanders says that healthcare is a right. On the surface this is correct - everyone has the right to seek healthcare. But we all know that sanders means that you have the power to force someone else to pay for the healthcare you want. This is the fallacy of ---
there is no such thing as a free lunch
incentive matter
trade is made of win
trade ---
promote economic progress
always leads to war
Properly understood, capitalism (free trade) is a ---
profit and loss system
profit system
loss system
This type of middleman brings buyers and sellers together. Ebay, a cattle buyer agent.
the Bridge
the Certifier
the Risk-Bearer
This type of middleman confirms or denies the quality, safety, and other characteristics of a good or service. Yelp and Underwriter's Laboratory.
theRisk-Bearer
the enforcer
the Certifier
This person stand between the buyer and seller of a service or good and will make certain that the quality is what they expect for their clients. Waiters and the event planner, wedding planner
The Enforced
the Risk-Barer
the Concierge
This type of middleman assumes the risk of enterprises or property that the owner needs protection from loss. ALL type of insurance. Publisher and insurance companies.
the Certifier
the Enforcer
the Risk-Bearer
This type of middleman has specialized knowledge which allows him to arrange things for you personally. Certain type of travel agents, customizer of various service.
the Concierge
the Bridge
the Insulator
Since the internet --- people as a percentage of the workforce are working as middlemen
more
less
This type of middleman negotiates between two parties that might not be able to negotiate with each other. Lawyers, talent agents, mediators, and in many ways deal maker generally
the Insulator
the Risk-Bearer
the Bridge
Prices are not --- that set value, they are --- that respond to value.
levers, metrics
metrics, levers
There are two ways to distribute good and service the --- with uses violence, or the threat of violence or the --- which is a system of peaceful voluntary exchanges.
political way, economic way
economic way, political way
Capitalism will collapse because the rich get richer and the poor workers get poorer. Eventually, the workers rise up and kill the business owners. Theory was totally wrong in every detail
Joseph Schumpeter
Karl Marx
Capitalism fall because of its success. Free market capitalism make the world ever more wealthy. One of the things people can buy in larger number is a college education. Many college educated people are not suitable for certain type of work anymore while not being valuable in the economy in any other way. these college educated people don't understand the prosperity that allowed them to go to college and they are bitter that they are not wealthy themselves. Their oppose capitalism and their opposition kills capitalism.
Joseph Schumpeter
Karl Marx
These are the element of creative destruction ---3--
new technologies for making things better, cheaper, faster
new products that people actually prefer
labor, capital, and resources must be re-allocated to preferred good, services and methods
older ways preserved to be fair
Entrepreneurs dis-equilibrate the market when the --- and the equilibrate the market when ---.
provide something new, other entrepreneurs enter and compete and thinner margins
other entrepreneurs enter and compete and thinner marginsm provide something new
The value of the factors of production are valued by --- from the good or service it produces and provides AND sells.
impute backward
assumed forward
