Fatal Equilibrium Preview

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Fatal Equilibrium Preview

• Here are some examples of test questions over the
  novel.

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Identify the person described

• "____, the English economist whom Spearman
  ranked over even John Maynard Keynes as the
  preeminent twentieth-century thinker, had
  described economics as 'the study of mankind in
  the ordinary business of life.'"

3
Identify the speaker

• "The people you met last night. One of them was
  a fraud."

4
Identify the economic principle

• " Reynolds invented the ball-point pen after
  World War II and had a monopoly on its
  production, he sold them for as much as eighteen
  dollars each. Now there are many producers of
  ball-point pens, and you pay no more than fifty
  cents to get one. . But I'll bet you would have
  been willing to pay a good deal more than fifty
  cents in order to have the convenience of a ball
  point instead of a fountain pen."