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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. Henry George's favorite idea was called __________. (fill in the blank)
(a) Villages of Cooperation.
(b) Taxation without representation.
(c) The big tax.
(d) The single tax.

2. The second stop on Heilbroner's historical journey describes the number of markets visited by one man in 1550, in what country?
(a) France.
(b) Germany.
(c) America.
(d) England.

3. Pamphlets printed at the time of his work compared Malthus with whom?
(a) Satan.
(b) Napolean
(c) Adam Smith.
(d) God.

4. The mistakes of economist are nothing short of _________. (fill in the blank)
(a) Rare.
(b) Inconsequential.
(c) Impossible.
(d) Calamitous.

5. Charles Fourier is classified as _________. (fill in the blank)
(a) A Labor Unionist.
(b) A Gloomy Economist.
(c) An Utopian Socialist.
(d) An Economic Revolutionary.

Short Answer Questions

1. Veblen was considered by the academic world to be what?

2. Malthus's essay earned economics the nickname _________. (fill in the blank)

3. In what year did Reverend Thomas Robert Malthus publish "An Essay on the Principle of Population as it Affects the Future Improvement of Society"?

4. What nationality is Karl Marx?

5. Who wrote the Tableau Economique?

(see the answer key)

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