Creative Destruction Refers to the Process Where

question 239

Multiple Choice

Creative destruction refers to the process where

• A) new products and methods of production are continuously replacing old ones
• B) producing more of one good causes you to produce less of another
• C) everybody involved is made worse off
• D) new ways to destroy buildings are employed

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Definitions:

Egas Moniz

A Portuguese neurologist known for pioneering the development of cerebral angiography and the controversial prefrontal leucotomy, which won him a Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1949.

Lobotomy

A surgical procedure used historically to treat mental illness, involving severing connections in the brain's prefrontal cortex, now widely discredited.

Pharmacotherapy

The treatment of diseases through the administration of drugs.

Cingulotomy

A neurosurgical procedure that targets the cingulate gyrus to treat certain psychiatric disorders, such as OCD and major depression, by severing connections in the brain.