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Growth of Corporate and Government Power
True False

1 .       The economies of most nations today are market economies. [Hint]

 
 


2 .       A lassiez-faire government policy is one in which the government is actively involved in ensuring the needs of the people are met. [Hint]

 
 


3 .       Socialism is the term used by Karl Marx to define a utopian society in which all goods are communally owned and people would not work for wages but would give according to their abilities. [Hint]

 
 


4 .       A monopoly is the control of a product or service by one company. [Hint]

 
 


5 .       Union membership has declined to less than five million in the United States. [Hint]

 
 


6 .       The founding fathers of the United States intended for the U.S. government to be small and not very powerful. [Hint]

 
 


7 .       The pluralist model of power views power as spread over a large number of groups with divergent values and goals. [Hint]

 
 


8 .       The power elite model suggests that a nation's voters hold the power to make changes in the country. [Hint]

 
 


9 .       "Displaced workers" is the term given to workers who have been thrown out of work by foreign competition. [Hint]

 
 


10 .       Corporations are less likely to look to other nations for workers today than they were in the 1970s. [Hint]

 
 






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