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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where was New Harmony located?

2. Adam Smith was a lecturer in what area?

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

4. Pamphlets printed at the time of his work compared Malthus with whom?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Why was Ricardo against the Corn Laws?

2. What does Heilbroner say is the core of economics?

3. What is the greatest danger to survival in an advanced society?

4. What is the proof that there is not a perfect solution to man's survival?

5. What does Heilbroner say that economists provide?

6. How does Heilbroner describe the nine economist in his introduction?

7. What does Heilbroner say in his introduction that the worldly philosophers did "quietly and inconspicuously"?

8. What was New Lanark?

9. Why did opponents of humanitarian legislation propose Smith's idea of laissez-faire?

10. How did the Corn Laws benefit the landowners?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How did Marx and Keynes each "exert the profoundest influence on the philosophy of the capitalist system"?

Essay Topic 2

What was the main thrust of The Communist Manifesto, and why did it have such a long-term impact on society?

Essay Topic 3

Use at least four of the worldly philosophers to discuss this statement: "History is basically the history of changes that take place in thinking and economics is basically a theory of historical movement."

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