Chapter 13: Economic Perspectives: Influences and Impacts
1. Which of the following is not a key role of entrepreneur as described by the economists?
- identification and creation of opportunities
- innovation
- demand analysis
- resource allocation
2. According to Adam Smith some economies grew more than the others because of ______.
- division of labour
- a proper co-ordination of economic activity
- the invisible ‘hand of market’
- all of these
3. Cantillon depicts the entrepreneur as ______.
- a networker
- someone seeking to improve social welfare
- an opportunist
- a risk taker
4. Entrepreneurship could be productive, unproductive, or dysfunctional.
- True
- 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.
- Marxist economic theory
- Liberal economic theory
- Classical (economic) theory
- 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?
- as economists began to explore dynamic problems, such as the processes that generate technological innovation
- as economists began to explore problems of equity between different stakeholders in an enterprise
- as economists began to explore static problems
- 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?
- neo-Austrians
- evolutionary economists
- classical school
- Chicago School