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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Heresies of John Maynard Keynes.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to Marx, workers are paid _________. (fill in the blank)
(a) Profits.
(b) Subsistence wages.
(c) A pitence.
(d) Surplus value.

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

3. Critics of Edgeworth pointed to ____________ as evidence that man did not always act on his own behalf. (fill in the blank)
(a) Factories.
(b) Farms.
(c) Labor laws.
(d) Trade unions.

4. _________ was based on true wealth only being created in agriculture. (fill in the blank)
(a) Laissez-faire.
(b) Agricracy.
(c) Physiocracy.
(d) Macroeconomics.

5. During the Victorian period, economics became the province of __________. (fill in the blank)
(a) Landowners.
(b) Lawyers.
(c) Professors.
(d) Politicians.

Short Answer Questions

1. _________ is concerned with finding some reason for the cosmos. (fill in the blank)

2. According to Ricardo, which class was the only class in English society which could benefit from its hold on grain prices?

3. Owen's idea called for the creation of _________. (fill in the blank)

4. How many years did it take Marx to write Capital?

5. It was rumored that Veblen was fluent in how many languages?

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