Question

Use the following quote from Adam Smith to answer the question below:

"It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest."

Source: Adam Smith, An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations

Which of the following systems believes that the role of the government is only to promote competition and provide public goods?

Answer 1

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Answer 2

A) Capitalism

B) Socialism

C) Communism

D) Laissez-faire

Answer 3

I dont know if its A or B

Answer 4

i think A

Answer 5

Thanks :) and you think you can help me with two more question?

Answer 6

i can see

Answer 7

Use the following excerpt from Robert Owen to answer the question below:

"Train any population rationally, and they will be rational. Furnish honest and useful employments to those so trained, and such employments they will greatly prefer to dishonest or injurious occupations. It is beyond all calculation the interest of every government to provide that training and that employment; and to provide both is easily practicable."

Source: A New View of Society - Essays 1813-1816, Robert Owen

In what way might Adam Smith have disagreed with this statement?

Answer 8

A) Smith believed that education was only for the poor.

B) Smith believed that workers could not be trained to work.

C) Smith believed that the government's role was very limited.

D) Smith believed that the government should directly employ people.

Answer 9

i THINK C

Answer 10

ok one more

Answer 11

okay

Answer 12

In what way was Marxism different from the socialism advocated by Owens and Fourier?

A) Owens and Fourier believed that the working masses were being exploited by Capitalism.

B) Marx described a system where the bourgeois capitalists were the tools of revolution.

C) Owens and Fourier thought that the capitalist system would bring about revolution.

D) Marx advocated the use of utopian communities and social reforms to create a classless society.

Answer 13

Its not D

Answer 14

im not sure on this one sorry

Answer 15

Its ok, Thanks though, So how are you ?

Answer 16

yw im good you?

Answer 17

The same

Answer 18

thats good

Answer 19

The answers you gave me were right :)

Answer 20

yayy lol :)

Answer 21

And yeah. Hows school doin?

Answer 22

its good you?

Answer 23

The same I have to catch up a bit but then after that Im on pace

Answer 24

me to i have to do it in math and civics

Answer 25

What's civics ?

Answer 26

its a class about the government like politics

Answer 27

Ohh wow I wonder why I didn't get that.

Answer 28

ik i dont even know why i have that class

Answer 29

lol

Answer 30

lol :D