Economic theory test MEI

Task 1
Question 1. What common basis with other sciences about society has economic theory?
1) political economy;
2) modern philosophy;
3) sociology;
4) humanities;
5) biology.
Question 2. What laws of philosophy are used in economic science?
1) unity and struggle of opposites;
2) the law of negation;
3) the law of marginal utility;
4) the law of negation, unity and struggle of opposites;
5) only 2 and 3 are correct.
Question 3. What is the subject of economic theory?
1) economic relations in society;
2) phenomena not mediated by the will of people;
3) phenomena and processes not mediated by consciousness;
4) spiritual and material interests;
5) social needs.
Question 4. What is the most complete definition of the concept of method:
1) it is a set of techniques by which the goal of the economy is determined;
2) it is a set of schemes, graphs necessary for the study of economic theory;
3) it is a set of techniques, methods, principles by which the ways of achieving goals are determined;
4) this is an analysis of internal connections, laws of production;
5) is a set of principles for organizing production processes.
Question 5. What method involves the analysis of practical human activity, based on the principles of maximum efficiency?
1) positive;
2) regulatory;
3) collection of information, its analysis and synthesis;
4) scientific abstraction;
5) dialectical.

Task 2
Question 1. What is the main dividing line between different views on the economy during the period of the ancient world, the slave-owning and feudal system?
1) in relation to subsistence farming;
2) along the line of relations with natural and monetary economy;
3) in relation to the monetary economy;
4) in relation to the forms of monetary circulation;
5) in relation to the sources of development of society.
Question 2. Who is the author of the systematization of economic views during the ancient, slave-owning and feudal periods?
1) Xenophon;
2) Plato;
3) Aristotle;
4) Solon;
5) Pericles.

Question 3. What sciences (forms) clearly identified and systematized by Aristotle?
1) the economy;
2) sociology;
3) chrematics;
4) economics and chrematistics;
5) none of the above.
Question 4. Who of the most ancient scientists preached ´´ a fair price´´, ´´ a fair exchange ''?
1) Thomas Aquinas;
2) Augustine;
3) Plato;
4) Aristotle;
5) Solon.
Question 5. What are the common features of mercantilism?
1) exchange;
2) money was considered as the highest form of wealth;
3) processes of circulation and production;
4) considered production as wealth;
5) consumption.

Task 3
Question 1. Name the largest representative of mercantilism in Russia in the 17th century.
1) I.T. Pososhkov;
2) V. Petty;
3) N. Kondratyev;
4) T. Men;
5) A. Turgot.
Question 2. What was the basis of the system of physiocrats?
1) the primacy of agriculture as the basis of social life;
2) analysis of social reproduction and its categories;
3) the primacy of the sphere of circulation;
4) answers 1 and 2 are correct;
5) all answers are wrong.
Question 3. Leading authors of the system of physiocrats.
1) F. Quesnay, A. Turgot, A. Smith;
2) A. Serra, W. Stafford;
3) T. Maine, A. Montchretien;
4) I. Pososhkov;
5) A. Turgot, T. Men.
Question 4. Who is the author of the theory of rent, the quantitative theory of money, the principle of comparative costs in international trade, etc.?
1) I. Pososhkov;
2) Adam Smith;
3) D. Ricardo;
4) V. Peggy;
5) T. Men.
Question 5. What is the essence of the views of marginalists?
1) in the principles of rational behavior;
2) the use of a subjective psychological approach to economic processes;
3) a dual approach to the pricing mechanism;
4) answers 1 and 2 are true;
5) all answers are wrong.

Task 4
Question 1. What is the structure of modern economic theory?
1) the theory of rational use of limited resources;
2) socio-economic theory;
3) institutional and socio-economic theory;
4) political economy;
5) socio-economic and institutional theory, those