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Austrian School of economics test
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1.
The first Austrian economists based their contribution mainly from
Greeks philosophers Democrit and Aristotle
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The founding fathers, mainly thomas Jefferson
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The classical liberals
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The Spanish scholastics
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Menger, Böhm-Bawerk and mises were influenced by the ideas of Tomás de Aquino and Juan de Mariana, in terms of logic analysis, individualism and human freedom
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The Austrian school relies on two principles:
Free market and gold standard
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Social psychology and human consciousness
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Subjetivism and methodological individualism
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Indirect realism and the invisible hand
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The Austrian school is human-action related, that is we cannot know what humans will decide and most of aspects in economics are individual decisions-related.
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The human action is, according to Mises,
Uneasiness being satisfied
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Any movement of the human body
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Will put into operation
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The state of being active
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A project may not success after the action, satisfaction may not occur.
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Why terms like "aggregate demand" are way less relevant to the Austrian School's Methodology
They can't relate to the actions of individuals
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They are used as a way to control the economy
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They are math-related
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A sudden high demand on a product leads to
The fall of the product's price
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The fall of the interest rate
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The detrimental of employment for companies furthest away from this product
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The emerge of new stages of production
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This is the key question to evaluate a good economist according to Hayek: https://mises.org/wire/hayeks-best-test-good-economist
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"Thanks" to a bank loan in our modern central bank system, a company invested in nuclear fusion, it is expected to take 20 years to complete. What will tend to happen after few years?
Other energy companies will make losses
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Many employees will abandon the project encouraged by better salaries in other energy companies
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More others companies under development will be profitable
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If the company is serious and calculated expenses well, unemployment will decrease
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For a good grasp, look at the 6 consequences of credit expansion by Professor Huerta de Soto: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rQd7SYFEapA&t=484s
7.
Who is not austrian author
Alan Greenspan
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Friedrich Hayek
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Carl Menger
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Israel Kirzner
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Huerta de Soto
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Murray Rothbard
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If that guy was truly libertarian he would not have controlled the interest rate.
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What is the main indicator an entrepreneur use to decide to initiate a project in a free-currency society?
The profit is higher than the interest rate
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The profit is at least 20% of the investment
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The price of the product will not decrease over time and there is a profit considering today's prices
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Cheaper investment goods, the profit is higher than the employees' salary
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Cheaper labor, the profit is higher than the employees' salary
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When wondering of investing money first you evaluate if it is better to just lend it.
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According to Carl Menger, how an asset becomes money in a free society?
The asset must be useful for other sectors in case of fall
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Relatively inflationary tend
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Relatively stable real value
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A recession for the Austrian school is considered as
None of mentioned
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The lose of important sectors jobs
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The collapse of the market
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The beginning of the healing of the market
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When recession explodes bad projects are detected, this is crucial for reallocation of people into genuine profitable businesses
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The minimum wage
Keeps the same amount of poverty but improves the quality of life for the lower class
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Increases poverty
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Diminishes poverty and improve the quality of life for the lower class
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12.
The great depression was devastating because
The fed didn't print enough money to face the deflation
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Hoover and Roosevelt overregulated the market
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Stock market trading on margin
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Lack of bank regulation
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The Dust Bowl
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How has the state become that big
People required guarantees to be secured and get the rights they deserved
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Capitalism can only exist thanks to the government, both need to grow along
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More than one is correct
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The incipient conditions of the Industrial Revolution required big actions
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After decades of propaganda, the government convinced the citizens of the need for supposed guarantees such as education and pensions
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Public roads became norm in the modern Age, Education introduced in Prussia, pensions and health by Bismarck in Germany, Central Banking in England. Purchasing power decreased
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Entrepreneurship is defined as
Adquired ability from which someone can discover profit opportunities in his environment
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Innate ability of human beings to discover profit opportunities in their environment
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Adquired abilty from which someone can improve his life condition
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Innate ability of human beings to improve their life condition
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15.
The value of a product is determined by
The subjective valuation of the market
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The time and costs of production + interest rate
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The time and costs of production
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The invisible hand
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Why a controlled interest rate at 0% is so dangerous?
When inflation rises and the interest rate hike again, it leads to losses and unemployment
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Entrepreneurs decide to set up mistaken projects
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It leads to a credit expansion that at last increase unemployment of people working far from the consumption
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All the rest
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