Chapter 13: Economic Perspectives: Influences and Impacts

1. Which of the following is not a key role of entrepreneur as described by the economists?

  1. identification and creation of opportunities
  2. innovation
  3. demand analysis
  4. resource allocation

Answer: C

2. According to Adam Smith some economies grew more than the others because of ______.

  1. division of labour
  2. a proper co-ordination of economic activity
  3. the invisible ‘hand of market’
  4. all of these

Answer: D

3. Cantillon depicts the entrepreneur as ______.

  1. a networker
  2. someone seeking to improve social welfare
  3. an opportunist
  4. a risk taker

Answer: D

4. Entrepreneurship could be productive, unproductive, or dysfunctional.

  1. True
  2. False

Answer: A

Explanation

Entrepreneurship could indeed be productive, unproductive, or dysfunctional. 

5. ______ proved to be an effective tool for analysing micro-economic phenomena such as price movements and their relationship with changes in supply and demand.

  1. Marxist economic theory
  2. Liberal economic theory
  3. Classical (economic) theory
  4. Neo-classical (economic) theory

Answer: D

Explanation

Neo-classical (economic) theory proved to be an effective tool for analysing micro-economic phenomena such as price movements and their relationship with changes in supply and demand.

6. Why did neo-classical economic theory become insufficient to study entrepreneurship?

  1. as economists began to explore dynamic problems, such as the processes that generate technological innovation
  2. as economists began to explore problems of equity between different stakeholders in an enterprise
  3. as economists began to explore static problems
  4. as economists began to take into account wider environmental considerations that influence entrepreneurship

Answer: A

Explanation

Neo-classical economic theory became insufficient to study entrepreneurship as economists began to explore dynamic problems, such as the processes that generate technological innovation.

7. Who challenged neo-classical assumptions about resource allocation?

  1. neo-Austrians
  2. evolutionary economists
  3. classical school
  4. Chicago School

Answer: A