Question

How the Dismal Science Got Its Name
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1.

"My continual aim has been to show the eternal superiority of some men to others..." This quotation can be attributed to someone who:

	1.believed in inequality and supported slavery.
	2.opposed both laissez-faire economics and slavery.
	3.supported free-market economics.
	4.preferred the "dismal" science to the "gay" science.

2.

The essayist who called economics the 'dismal science' did so because he did not like:

	1.the constant focus in economics on opportunity costs.
	2.the prediction of economic theory that populations would eventually starve.
	3.the difficult mathematical analysis used in economics.
	4.the anti-slavery conclusions of economic theory.

3.

The title of the work in which the phrase "dismal science" is first used is:

	1.An Essay on the Principle of Population
	2.Six Essays on The Elements Of Political Economy
	3.Occasional Discourse on the Negro Question
	4.An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations

4.

Influential economist John Stuart Mill responded to Carlyle's pro-slavery writings by calling them:

	1.the work of the devil.
	2.more dismal than economics.
	3.a watershed moment in the history of free-market economics.
	4.sound economics but bad public policy.