final Q1 Flashcards

1
Q

Alfred MArshalls’s concept of value was based from?

A

John Stuart Mill and William Jevons

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2
Q

Karl Marx called ________ the dictatorship of the bourgeoisie

A

Capitalism

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3
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He proposed the concept of marginal utility derived from demand curved, leading to a downward sloping curve

A

Jules Dupuit

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4
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________ Holds that there is a utility that is being conferred by the resources to the final products

A

Value theory

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5
Q

Two inputs in the production cost

A

Labor and Capital

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6
Q

_______ claims that it is only meaning ful to ask which option is better than the other but is meaningless to ask hom much better it is or how good it is

A

Ordinal Utility

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7
Q

__________ wrote goods are valuable because they serve various uses whose importance differs

A

Carl Menger

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8
Q

it measures the magnitude of change in the quantity supplied and demand for commodities when there are changes in price, income, and price of relatred goods

A

Elasticity

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9
Q

If monopolies arise then the individual entrepreneur will be able to increase his own utility at the expense of social utility.

A

Antimony of Value

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10
Q

In the 1870s he wrote a small number of tracts on international trade and the problems of protectionism

A

Alfred Marshall

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11
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______________, is an economic system where the means of production, such as money and other forms of capital, are owned to some degree by the public through the state.

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Socialism

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12
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Neo-classical economics is a school of economic thought that emerged in the late 19th and early 20th centuries as a respose to the ________ and _______ economic theories

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Classical and Marxian

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13
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HE campaigned for socialism and became a significant figure in the International Workingmen’s Association

A

Karl Marx

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14
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__________implies that if positive excess demand exists in one market, negative excess demand must exist in some other market

A

General Equilibrium

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15
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__________

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16
Q

He writes abt the types of cost in production, explaining the short run and intermediate time period of production.

A

Alfred Marshall

17
Q

under a socialist system, the decides how wealth is distributed among public institutions.

A

Government

18
Q

He was self-taught economist during the Neo-classical economics era

A

Jules Dupuit

19
Q

The use of
imposes the assumption that levels of absolute satisfaction exist so that the magnitudes of increments to satisfaction can be compared across different
situations.

A

Cardinal Utility

20
Q

A market economic system operates on the premise that what is good for all is good for one
and vise versa

A

False

21
Q

Leon Walras was the first to develop the standard supply and demand graph demonstrating
a number of fundamentals regarding supply and demand, like the market equilibrium.

A

False

22
Q

Coumot competition is an economic model describing an industry structure in which rival
companies offering an identical product compete on the amount of output they produce,
independently and at different time.

A

False

23
Q

Jules Dupuit, provided the initial ideas of consumer surplus

A

True

24
Q

Most countries have a blended economic system including elements of both capitalism and
socialism.

A

True

25
Q

Böhm-Bawerk argued that capitalists do exploit their workers.

A

False

26
Q

Leon Walras suggests that equlilibrium will be achieved through a process of trial and error.

A

True

27
Q

Marx was explaining that the workers were given their proper wages when they created value to the products they were producing, thus labor was a mere commodity that could gain only
subsistence wages.

A

False

28
Q

Bourgeois means town dweller.

A

True

29
Q

According to Karl Marx, it was not the pressure of labor pools that drove wagesto the subsistence level but rather the existence of a large army of unemployed, which he blamed on capitalists

A

True

30
Q

he is known as one of the founders of neoclassical economics

A

Alfred Marshall