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Economics #2

Total questions: 70

Worksheet time: 27mins

Name
Class
Date
1.
a)

Euro, currency of most European nations

b)

Yuan, Chinese currency symbol

c)

peso, Mexican currency symbol

d)

dollar sign United States currency symbol

2.

Careful to get a bargain. Careful to get quality.

a)

Spending other people's money on other people

b)

Spending other people's money on oneself

c)

Spending your money on other people

d)

spending you money on oneself

3.

Careless about bargains. Careless about quality. Just don't care. Looking for a political advantage.

a)

Spending one's money on oneself

b)

Spending one's money on other people

c)

Spending other people's money on other people

d)

Spending other people's money on oneself.

4.

Care about quality. Do not care about getting a bargain

a)

Spending one's money on oneself

b)

Spending one's money on other people

c)

Spending other people's money on oneself

d)

Spending other people's money on other people

5.

Don't care about about quality. Care only about a bargain.

a)

Spending your money on yourself

b)

Spending your money on other people

c)

Spending other people's money on other people

d)

Spending other people's money on oneself

6.
a)

John C. Fremont

b)

Abe Lincoln

7.

A college student who graduated with a degree in sociology is likely to see

a)

creation in the economy

b)

destruction in the economy

c)

creation and destruction in the economy

d)

despair in the swimming pool

8.

Entrepreneurs and people with work experience from their teenage years onward, and who did not go to college are likely to understand

a)

creation and destruction in the economy

b)

creation in the economy

c)

destruction in the economy

d)

consanguinity in shopping malls

9.
a)

horse

b)

goat

c)

sheep

d)

new hair styles

10.
a)

Ludwig von Mises

b)

Milton Friedman

c)

F.A. Hayek

d)

Walter Williams

11.

According to Karl Marx the last stage before the Communist paradise was:

a)

primitive (Mesolithic) communism of hunter-gatherers

b)

Agricultural Empires

c)

Medieval Period with the feudal system

d)

Capitalist Era with workers and entrepreneurs

12.

According to Karl Marx this factor of production is both totally unnecessary and exploits the workers. (naturally, he was wrong)

a)

land (resources)

b)

capital (money and the things that money buy, buildings, machines)

c)

labor (workers and contractors)

d)

entrepreneurs

13.

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.

a)

impossibility of calculation ignored by socialists

b)

incentive problem ignored by socialists.

14.

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.

a)

incentive problem

b)

impossibility of calculation

15.

Soviet Gosplan demands tons of nails (this has nothing to do with the nails that are actually needed)

a)

big nails

b)

little nails

16.

The Soviet Gosplan demand large numbers of nails (this has nothing to do with the nails that are actually needed)

a)

big nails

b)

little nails

17.
a)

Milton Friedman

b)

Walter Williams

c)

Thomas Sowell

18.
a)

the Bridge

b)

the Certifier

c)

the Enforcer

19.

Gorbachev asked Thatcher "How do you make certain that the people are fed?" Margaret Thatcher responded ---

a)

I don't the market does that

b)

I cook for them and they like it

c)

Brits are too fat anyway

20.

Command and control economies do not work because:

a)

it disengages all mind and people cannot participate in appraising the value of goods and services

b)

it engages all hearts and mind in utopian schemes that work well because intentions are pure

21.

--- is freer and wealthier than ---.

a)

Australia, North Korea

b)

North Korea, Australia

22.

The engagement of all minds that creates social appraisal and market price that creates a rationing most of us can agree with.

a)

Command and control and the Gosplan (centrally planned economies)

b)

Free market capitalism

23.

Starvation, human caused shortages, death and extreme poverty

a)

Command and control economies

b)

free market capitalism

24.

This person will be able and willing to complain about capitalism without understanding the productive capacities of capitalism.

a)

engineering student

b)

medical student

c)

business student and entrepreneur

d)

political science student

25.

Trade is made of ---

a)

win

b)

thumb tacks

26.

Free market capitalism ---

a)

has made the rich get richer and the poor get richer too.

b)

has made the rich get poorer and the poor get poorer too

c)

has made the rich get richer and the poor get poorer

d)

has made the rich use tooth brushes and the poor use dental floss

27.
a)

Milton Friedman

b)

Hernando de Soto

c)

Walter Williams

d)

Thomas Sowell

28.

As price goes up demand goes ---

a)

down

b)

up

29.

As the price of a good or resource goes up suppliers are willing to provide ---

a)

less

b)

more

30.
a)

Williams Triangle

b)

Friedman Triangle

c)

Hayek Triangle

d)

Sowell Triangle

31.

In a free market with free banking, during a recession it is best to

a)

invest back in production time because interest rate, labor, and resources are a bargain

b)

invest in retail only because all of the factors of production are expensive.

32.
a)

Union of Soviet Socialist Republics

b)

People's Republic of China

c)

Cuba

d)

National Socialist Germany (1933-1945)

33.
a)

The duck and goose dance

b)

Mr. Robinson's sock drawer

c)

The official BCHS prom dance (all night long)

d)

Green Party debates

34.
a)

Versailles

b)

Dallas stadium

c)

Empire State Building

d)

Taj Mahal

35.
a)

Hernando de Soto (the economist)

b)

Walter Williams

c)

Jean Baptist Say

d)

F.A. Hayek

36.
a)

Walter Williams

b)

Thomas Sowell

c)

Milton Friedman

37.
a)

Mike Pence

b)

Donald Trump

c)

Tulsi Gabbard

d)

Frank Zappa

38.
a)

Adam and Eve

b)

Adam Smith

39.
a)

Supreme Court Building

b)

the White House

c)

the Lincoln Memorial

d)

Capitol Hill

40.
a)

the White House

b)

the Supreme Court Building

c)

the Jefferson Memorial

d)

the Jefferson Memorial

41.
a)

the Radio Tower

b)

the Evil Tower

c)

the Tower of London

d)

the Eiffel Tower

42.
a)

Egyptian Pyramid (Giza)

b)

Aztec Pyramid

c)

Mayan Pyramid

d)

Taco Tuesday

43.
a)

Capitol Hill

b)

the Supreme Court Building

c)

the White House

d)

the Hohenzollern Palace

44.
a)

Barrack Obama

b)

Ronald Reagan

c)

Donald Duck

d)

Donald Trump

45.
a)

Tulsi Gabbard

b)

Elizabeth Warren

c)

Hillary Clinton

d)

Susan Smith

46.

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.

a)

Moroccan food

b)

Film Noir (Humphrey Bogart Film)

c)

Moonlite walk

47.

Spontaneous orders --3--

a)

snowflakes

b)

termite mounds

c)

free market economies

d)

command and control economies

48.

Rent control causes --- and the minimum wage causes ---

a)

housing shortages, unemployment

b)

unemployment, housing shortages

49.

It is important to pay people enough so that they will continue to do important, difficult work that requires intelligence and conscientiousness.

a)

thee is no such thing as a free lunch

b)

incentive matter

50.

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.

a)

Cornelius Vanderbilt

b)

Henry Ford

c)

Andrew Carnegie

d)

John D. Rockefeller

51.

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.

a)

Henry Ford

b)

John D. Rockefeller

c)

Cornelius Vanderbilt

d)

Andrew Carnegie

52.

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.

a)

Andrew Carnegie

b)

Henry Ford

c)

Cornelius Vanderbilt

d)

John D. Rockefeller

53.

Did not invent the automobile. He invented the affordable automobile.

a)

Cornelius Vanderbilt

b)

Henry Ford

c)

Andrew Carnegie

d)

John D. Rockefeller

54.

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 ---

a)

there is no such thing as a free lunch

b)

incentive matter

c)

trade is made of win

55.

trade ---

a)

promote economic progress

b)

always leads to war

56.

Properly understood, capitalism (free trade) is a ---

a)

profit and loss system

b)

profit system

c)

loss system

57.

This type of middleman brings buyers and sellers together. Ebay, a cattle buyer agent.

a)

the Bridge

b)

the Certifier

c)

the Risk-Bearer

58.

This type of middleman confirms or denies the quality, safety, and other characteristics of a good or service. Yelp and Underwriter's Laboratory.

a)

theRisk-Bearer

b)

the enforcer

c)

the Certifier

59.

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

a)

The Enforced

b)

the Risk-Barer

c)

the Concierge

60.

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.

a)

the Certifier

b)

the Enforcer

c)

the Risk-Bearer

61.

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.

a)

the Concierge

b)

the Bridge

c)

the Insulator

62.

Since the internet --- people as a percentage of the workforce are working as middlemen

a)

more

b)

less

63.

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

a)

the Insulator

b)

the Risk-Bearer

c)

the Bridge

64.

Prices are not --- that set value, they are --- that respond to value.

a)

levers, metrics

b)

metrics, levers

65.

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.

a)

political way, economic way

b)

economic way, political way

66.

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

a)

Joseph Schumpeter

b)

Karl Marx

67.

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.

a)

Joseph Schumpeter

b)

Karl Marx

68.

These are the element of creative destruction ---3--

a)

new technologies for making things better, cheaper, faster

b)

new products that people actually prefer

c)

labor, capital, and resources must be re-allocated to preferred good, services and methods

d)

older ways preserved to be fair

69.

Entrepreneurs dis-equilibrate the market when the --- and the equilibrate the market when ---.

a)

provide something new, other entrepreneurs enter and compete and thinner margins

b)

other entrepreneurs enter and compete and thinner marginsm provide something new

70.

The value of the factors of production are valued by --- from the good or service it produces and provides AND sells.

a)

impute backward

b)

assumed forward