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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. The Communist Manifesto was the platform for _________. (fill in the blank)
(a) The Labor Movement.
(b) The Fair Trade Act.
(c) The Industrial Revolution.
(d) The Communist League.

2. Which legislation resulted in duties on grain imports and remained in effect for thirty years?
(a) Wheat Laws.
(b) Parliment Laws.
(c) British Market Laws.
(d) Corn Laws.

3. Veblen attacked the rich as he looked for what he called the __________. (fill in the blank)
(a) Earnest man.
(b) Economic man.
(c) Honest man.
(d) Greedy man.

4. What is the most worldly of all man's activities, according to Heilbroner?
(a) The drive for companionship.
(b) The need for food.
(c) The drive for wealth.
(d) The need for religion.

5. What is Marx's theory of valuation is called?
(a) Value Theory of Labor.
(b) Labor Theory of Value.
(c) Communism.
(d) Socialism.

Short Answer Questions

1. Malthus continued to work on his theory of population and the food supply and assumed that humans could double their number every _________. (fill in the blank)

2. What were the economic thinkers of the Victorian period known as?

3. How does Schumpeter approach economics in a unique way in his book?

4. 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)

5. Heilbroner describes a trial of a wealthy man before the church in Boston in what year?

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