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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. Who failed to recognize the wealth creating ability of labor?
(a) Quesnay.
(b) Locke.
(c) Hume.
(d) Smith.

2. Who presented his theory of economics in Calculus of Pleasure and Pain?
(a) Francis Ysidro Edgeworth.
(b) Stanley Jevrons.
(c) Frederic Bastiat.
(d) Leon Walras.

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

4. The society that Marx believed would follow capitalism would be _________. (fill in the blank)
(a) Wealthy.
(b) Profitable.
(c) Well-planned.
(d) Classless.

5. Having spent some time in South Africa, Hobson returned to England and wrote what book?
(a) Imperialism.
(b) Capitalism.
(c) Capital.
(d) Progress.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many of the economists featured in the book made their own fortune?

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

3. What was the title of Veblen's first book?

4. Heilbroner says the work of economist is both exciting and _________. (fill in the blank)

5. Most of the featured economists could never master _________. (fill in the blank)

(see the answer key)

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