4/6 Class

Question 1

election of 1960

Answer 1

John F Kennedy

Question 2

Kennedy’s new frontier

Answer 2

cold war hawk
civil rights
it’s the economy, stupid
Kennedy was shot in 1963

Question 3

unemployment debate(how do you fight it)

Answer 3

Keynesians - economic sops most of it up, winning camp

Structuralist - target specific pockets and categories of poverty

Question 4

john F Kennedy how did he stimulate the economy

Answer 4

tax cut

Question 5

the phillips curve

Answer 5

high unemployment means less inflation

Question 6

human capital theory

Answer 6

investment in people, eg. education, training, etc

Question 7

LBJ’s war on poverty

Answer 7

culture of poverty argument
economic opportunity act(1964) loans for small and rural business development 
work study for college students
domestic peace corps, of VISTA
Job Corps Centers
Neighborhood Youth Corps
Head Start

Question 8

environmental movement and the push toward regulation

Answer 8

mass environmental movement:
beauty
Health
Permanence

Question 9

invisible foot

Answer 9

kenneth boulding, the economics of the coming spaceship earth

Question 10

tragedy of the commons

Answer 10

each farmer is working in their own self interest and might not work for the population as a whole