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Self Test on Knowledge Associated With Worldview Theme #49

Respond to each of the 10 multiple choice questions below by typing the number 1 to 5 of the answer you wish to select in the response box. When finished, click "process your responses".

1. Which of the following associations is wrong?

1) progressive taxation / greater income, less tax

2) nationalization / private becomes public property

3) welfare assistance / public housing

4) corporate welfare / government subsidy to business

5) consumer protection / government regulations aid

2.  A government might impose wage and price controls to

1) boost production        2) quell labor union demands    3) combat inflation

4) redistribute income            5) move toward laissez faire capitalism

3. The phrase “poor receive money from government instead of  paying" might be part of the definition or description of which of the terms below? 

1) progressive taxation       2) negative income tax       

3) welfare assistance          4) public housing  

5) public goods 

4.   Which of the following terms is linked to Marxism?

1) multinational corporation    2) wage and price controls   3) class struggle

4) utilitarianism            5) publicly funded health care

5. All of the following represent evidence of substantial government interference in an economy except which? 

1) small % of GNP linked to government purchases or production

2) large transfer payments to poor        3) heavy progressive income tax

4) massive government regulation of economic life     

5) extensive welfare state "safety net" in place

6.   Which of the following associations is inappropriate? 

1) social welfare states / heavy taxation    2) communism / no private property

3) Marxist model of capitalism  /  made poor predictions 

4) origin of profits / surplus value arises out of unpaid labor

5)  socialism  / egalitarianism 

7.  Which of the following governmental roles best describes what is valued by someone for whom the Social Welfare Statism worldview theme is a key component of their overall worldview ?

1) laissez faire     2) controls all means of production    3) regulates minimally

4) uses centralized power to look after citizens    5) heads loose confederation 

8. Belief in all of the following might be expected of someone for whom the Socialism worldview theme is a key component of their overall worldview except which?

 1) essential correctness of Marxist analysis    2)  public welfare & common good

3) state control over all means of production     4) all property held in common

5) decentralized economic system

9.  A belief that you would not expect someone for whom the Social Welfare Statism worldview theme is a key component of their overall worldview to hold would be belief in or being sympathetic to which of the following?

1) strong national government        2) regulations to insure workplace safety

3) regulations to insure environmental quality   4) extensive social services

5)  abolition of private property

10.  ____________ provides an example of centralized market socialism.

1) co-operative economics    2) the old Soviet Union

3) China         4) Cuba           5) corporate welfare  

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