Since the 1970s, the number of single-issue interest groups has risen
Indicate whether the statement is true or false
FALSE
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During the Great __________, Parliament passed a number of taxes on the colonies
a. Push b. Crush c. Squeeze d. Grip
Select the correct benefits and drawbacks to a fixed exchange rate:
a. Could be based on attachment to precious metals (gold) but could lead to inflation if a country prints too much money. b. Could be used to replace domestic currency if the currency is weak, financial institutions are suspicious, and the dollar is strong. c. Could do very well if tied to a strong currency but suffers from vulnerability to other nation’s recession. d. Supply and demand are market driven but governments can manipulate value by either printing money or removing currency from circulation.
Stalin's plan for industrializing Russia
a. involved restructuring agriculture to create surpluses to invest in modernization. b. assumed that factories' efficiencies would create profits for further investment. c. offered material incentives to attract farm workers to new industrial jobs. d. relied on market forces to attract new investment opportunities. e. were aimed at raising the people's standard of living.
How does Gilpin explain the rise to prominence of multinational corporations?
a. They serve the interests of the United States, the most dominant power when they rose to prominence. b. They are an inevitable by-product of the erosion of the primacy of the nation-state in international relations. c. They result from the absence of a dominant political power bending the international economy to its will. d. They result from a largely unfettered international economic system that pursues global welfare rather than national interest. e. They arose spontaneously, owing to the operation of an "invisible hand" that dictated that such institutions provided the best means for exploiting the world's scarce resources.