Exam 9: Political Economy

The market is the solution to most problems.

For much of the 20th century you couldn't tell much difference between labor leaders and bosses.

Markets are natural.

The cultural core is:

ITQ stands for:

An emic part of American culture is that everyone is in the middle class.

Discuss why Nasrudin Hodja said it was most difficult to teach students to see things as they really are.

In the prisoner's dilemma, the best solution for everyone is:

When we learn something that's against the grain of our culture, it makes us feel uncomfortable.

On the Gulf of Mexico, skippers are too independent to ever organize.

Science helps sort out cultural illusion from political-economic realities.

If we keep track of individual feelings and identities we're likely to lose sight of the larger system we're trying to understand.

The ruling class of the U.S. is just as opposed to greenhouse gases as to unions.

An etic grid expresses:

People make their own choices independent of political economies.

To change the system in Iceland, virtually everyone had to disobey the law.

What undermines the price shrimpers on the Gulf of Mexico get for shrimp?

If both people in the prisoner's dilemma do what economists say would be best for them, then:

Explain what agency is and how it relates to what other people do.

In the U.S. labor leaders are appointed from above.