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The Free Market
Those Who Make the Rules
Opportunity and Social Mobility
Inequality and Democracy
Inequality for All
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Author who theorized that the market is controlled by an 'invisible hand'
Who is Adam Smith?
100
Argued conservative business advocated needed to educate the public before pursuing political office
Who is Kim Phillips-Fein?
100
The organization does Richard Reeves works for. (Hint: the video explaining social mobility with Legos)
What is the Brookings Institution?
100
Author of "Here's what Washington really does"
Who is Robert J. Samuelson?
100
Man who is the focus of the "Inequality for All" documentary.
Who is Robert Reich?
200
Described the market using the example of making pencils
Who is Friedman?
200
Professor at Cambridge University who argues there is "no such thing as a free market"
Who is Ha-Joon Chang?
200
Wrote "Of the 1%, by the 1%, for the 1%".
Who is Joseph E. Stiglitz?
200
Percentage of eligible voters who participate in an average presidential election.
What is 50%?
200
Position Robert Reich held in the Clinton Administration.
What is Secretary of Labor?
300
Motivates individuals in the free market to act in ways that serve society.
What is self-interest?
300
Wrote: "Today, even the most ardent free-market proponents in Britain or other rich countries would not think of bringing child labour back as part of the market liberalization package that they so want. However, until the late nineteenth or the early twentieth century, when the first serious child labour regulations were introduced in Europe and North America, many respectable people judged child labour regulation to be against the principles of the free market."
Who is Ho-Joon Chang?
300
Wrote a personal account of poverty in the U.S.
Who is Linda Tirado?
300
Completed a study showing that poor Americans don't participate in politics as much or as effectively as rich Americans.
What is the APSA Task Force on Inequality?
300
University Robert Reich was teaching at during the filming of "Inequality for All".
What is the University of California, Berkeley
400
Argued that Americans need freedom to work.
Who is President Reagan?
400
Author of "Capital in the Twenty-First Century" which argued that growing inequality is directly linked to distributive tax policies. (Hint: Professor at the Paris School of Economics; book was described by several of our authors but we did not read something he wrote).
Who is Thomas Piketty?
400
Completed a survey and analysis of the results on low-wage workers in the U.S.
What is Oxfam America?
400
Wrote: "In the absence of a living wage and an ethical pay structure, the work ethic, on which the American dream is founded, doesn't work."
Who is Gary Younge
400
The 3-decades Reich called the "great prosperity".
What is 1950 to 1970?
500
Mentored Ronald Reagan while he worked at General Electric
Who is Lemuel Ricketts Boulware?
500
Wrote: "Certainly this is no time for any of us to stop thinking about the social and economic problems which are the root cause of the social revolution which is today a supreme factor in the world."
Who is FDR?
500
Argued the Affirmative Action would help correct the opportunity gap in America.
Who is Lane Kenworthy?
500
Author of political science study claiming America is more of an oligarchy than a democracy (Hint: not the author of the news article we read, but the person he interviewed)
Who is Martin Gilens (and Benjamin Page)?
500
The Supreme Court decision that decided corporations had the same free speech rights as people.
What is Citizens United?