Chapter Three Section Four

Question 0

Articulated by David Ricardo, it says that when wages are high people have more children, leading to increased labor, which would then lower wages

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“Iron Law of Wages”

Question 1

An early Industrial Age thinker who predicted the effects of population explosion- he predicted trouble for the poor

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Thomas Malthus

Question 2

Actions are right if they promote happiness, wrong if they cause pain. He wanted to improve the lives of working people through government intervention

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John Stuart Mill

Question 3

Early socialists who tried to build self sufficient communities in which all work was shared and all property was owned in common

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Utopians

Question 4

A pamphlet written by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels which outlines class struggles between the rich and poor

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The Communist Manifesto

Question 5

The goal of society should be the greatest happiness for the greatest number of people

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Utilitarianism

Question 6

The people as a whole, rather than private individuals, would own the means of production

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Socialism

Question 7

A form of socialism that sees class struggle between employer and employee as inevitable

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Communism

Question 8

The working class

Answer 8

Proletariat