Economic Systems quiz

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1. 1 Easy

   What did Marx call the class that owns the factories?

   Answer: Bourgeoisie

   Why: Marx's proletariat is the opposite class: workers who own no means of production and sell their labour for wages.

2. 2 Medium

   How are minimum wages set in Sweden?

   Answer: Collective agreements

   Why: Denmark and Finland also have no minimum wage law, leaving pay floors to deals between unions and employers.

3. 3 Hard

   What textbook public good did Coase find private owners ran in Britain?

   Answer: Lighthouses

   Why: Ships paid light dues when they docked, so owners could charge for a light that every passing vessel could see.

4. 4 Easy

   Which board game grew from a lesson on how landlords get rich?

   Answer: Monopoly

   Why: Its ancestor, Lizzie Magie's Landlord's Game, had two rule sets: one rewarding monopolies, one sharing new wealth with all.

5. 5 Medium

   Which city next to Hong Kong became a special economic zone in 1980?

   Answer: Shenzhen

   Why: Shenzhen grew from about 310,000 residents in 1980 to about 17.6 million by 2020.

6. 6 Hard

   Who argued in 1920 that planners can't calculate without market prices?

   Answer: Ludwig von Mises

   Why: Friedrich Hayek later recast the argument as a knowledge problem: the facts planners need are scattered, tacit and always changing.