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Economics Multiple Choice

How many of these questions related to economics can you answer correctly?
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1. Where was the world's first stock exchange established?
Amsterdam
Frankfurt
Paris
Luxembourg
2. What do Bull and Bear symbolize?
Surplus and Debt
Boom and Downturn
Capitalism and Socialism
3. What is a goal in mercantilism?
To reduce tariffs
To export more than to import
To put money into circulation
4. Why does free market economy work, according to Adam Smith?
Because people care for each other
Because everyone cares for his/her own profit
Because the most able end up controlling everything
5. Which decade is most associated with "Economic Miracles" that took place in Germany, Italy, Japan, and other countries?
1980s
1920s
1950s
1830s
6. What is stagflation?
an inflation of 0%
Pay raises that match inflation
High inflation + high unemployment
7. Until 1971, the US Dollar was convertible to which metal?
Copper
Gold
Silver
Iron
8. What is a key concept of Keynesianism?
Governments should actively stimulate the economy
The unemployed should be forced to work for benefits
The state should only have a bare minimum of tasks
The ideas of John Maynard Keynes played a major role in Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal policies of the 1930s and 40s.
9. Where did Karl Marx believe would socialist societies first emerge?
In highly developed countries
In the whole world at once
In the poorest and most oppressed countries
He thought that capitalism first had to squeeze out its positive effects, before inevitably collapsing after severe crises.
10. What is the name for a famous group of free market advocates, among them Milton Friedman?
Boston School
Philadelphia School
Chicago School
San Francisco School
11. Which bank played a major role triggering the 2008 Great Recession when it filed for bankruptcy?
Goldman Sachs
Lehman Brothers
Merrill Lynch
12. What is measured when one speaks of economic growth of a country?
The median income of its population
The budget surplus it has acquired
The market value of the goods it has produced
13. Since the 1950s, how has the top tax rate in the United States changed?
It has been lowered continually.
It has been increased continually.
It hardly changed.
During the Eisenhower presidency, the top marginal tax rate stayed around 90%.
14. Who was usually taxed in ancient Athens?
manufacturers
the richest
foreigners living in the city
farmers
Many considered this an honor.
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