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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Behind the Worldly Philosophy.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The first stop on Heilbroner's description of how economists became necessary to society is France in what year?
(a) 1305.
(b) 1776.
(c) 1630.
(d) 1550.

2. Francis Ysidro Edgeworth was a graduate of what university?
(a) Yale.
(b) Harvard.
(c) The School of Economic Thought.
(d) Oxford.

3. What were the economic thinkers of the Victorian period known as?
(a) The underground of economics.
(b) Socialists.
(c) Mathematicians.
(d) Political economists.

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)
(a) War.
(b) Theories.
(c) Power.
(d) Wealth.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Keynes was involved in what important conference after World War II?

2. Who sent a letter to his business associates threatening to ruin them?

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

4. Heilbroner believed that modern economic theories would not have the powerful ___________ of the worldly philosophers. (fill in the blank)

5. The fact that man is _________ makes survival difficult. (fill in the blank)

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