Pepe Believes That We Need to Consider More Than Just

question 22

Multiple Choice

Pepe believes that we need to consider more than just natural forces,such as natural disasters,when we talk about global inequality.Why might he have that analysis?

• A)Social forces also play a factor in why large groupings of people go without food.
• B)Sociologists have a responsibility to document how God has punished certain groups of people.
• C)Considering only natural forces does not take into account the power of positive and negative thinking in terms of people's structures of opportunity.
• D)Pepe must be a Marxist, because only Marxists try to catalog factors for inequality that are not naturally occurring.
• E)Pepe understands that natural forces do not affect global hunger.

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Definitions:

Utility Function

Formula that assigns a level of utility to individual market baskets.

Corner Solution

Situation in which the marginal rate of substitution of one good for another in a chosen market basket is not equal to the slope of the budget line.

MRS (Marginal Rate Of Substitution)

The rate at which a consumer is willing to substitute one good for another while maintaining the same level of satisfaction.

MRT (Marginal Rate Of Transformation)

The rate at which goods or services can be transformed into other goods or services, reflecting the opportunity cost of shifting resources in production.