Which best defines a quota?
a. Taxes assessed on goods coming into a country
b. The selling of a product as a price below the cost in the home market
c. A restriction on the quantity of goods that can be imported to or exported from a country
d. All of these are true.
c
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To test the hypothesis that Europeans were less likely to settle
in colonies where they were vulnerable to tropical diseases, one could compare: a. the number of European settlers in India and Haiti. b. the number of European settlers in Canada and Haiti. c. European settlers as a percentage of the total population in colonies that were very similar except for presence or absence of deadly tropical diseases. d. European settlers as a percentage of the total population in colonies that had different kinds of tropical diseases.
Which one of the following correctly states the difference between a block grant and a grant-in-aid?
a. Grants-in-aid can be spent for any purpose; block grants can be used only for narrow, specific purposes. b. The national government gives far less in both block grants and grants-in-aid than it used to. c. Block grants originated during the Civil War; grants-in-aid did not begin until the early 1900s. d. Block grants are given by the states to the national government; grants-in-aid flow from the national government to the states. e. A grant-in-aid can be spent only for specific purposes; block grants can be used for broad, general purposes.
The "collectivist consensus" in Britain refers to
a. the coalition of leftwing parties that created today's Labour Party. b. the European socialist movement that inspired British policy in the 1930s. c. a general agreement in the post-World War II decades about the role of government. d. the Keynesian economic theory about government's role in maintaining economic stability. e. uniform policy-making procedures throughout the British Empire.
Economic structuralists focus on how environmental issues influence
a. the power of a given state visàvis other states in the global system. b. gaps in wealth and economic power. c. norms of behavior globally concerning how companies, NGOs, and states interact to conserve resources. d. the productive capacities of women in developing societies.