Which of the following is an example of an act of government?
a. creating Pell grants to enable more students to attend college
b. unemployment rising 2 percent
c. the stock market going up 200 points
d. a hurricane devastating central Florida
e. new children's educational programs offered on cable TV
A
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Which of these statements best summarizes Gilpin's perspective on the existence of an interdependent international economy?
a. It is destined to fragment into autarkic national economies. b. It exists to serve the interests of the dominant economic class. c. It emerges spontaneously because it makes all states in the system better off. d. It demonstrates that nation-states play no meaningful role in the international political economy. e. It exists because it maximizes aggregate wealth, but it cannot exist without a dominant power to sustain it.
Which of the following constitutional decisions was subsequently overruled by the Supreme Court?
a. Wickard v. Filburn b. Hammer v. Dagenhart c. NLRB v. Jones and Laughlin Steel Corp. d. United States v. Darby Lumber Company
Why, according to Stiglitz, are SDRs inadequate as a global reserve currency?
a. SDRs are pegged to the US dollar. b. Their exchange rates fluctuate too wildly. c. Poorer countries have no access to them. d. They are allocated based on a country's shares in the IMF.
The collapse of the Soviet Union began during the presidency of ________ and was completed during the presidency of ________.
A. Richard Nixon; Ronald Reagan B. Ronald Reagan; George H. W. Bush C. Jimmy Carter; George W. Bush D. George H. W. Bush; Bill Clinton E. Jimmy Carter; Ronald Reagan