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Economics
Hodge Podge
Name that Philosophe
Philosophers
Government
100
Book written describing economic system based on laissez-faire
What is Wealth of Nations?
100
informal social gatherings where artists, philosophes gathered to exchange ideas.
What is a salon?
100
British philosopher turned economist
Adam Smith
100
Belief that reason is the chief source of knowledge
What is rationalism?
100
Three natural rights proposed by John Locke as belonging to all humans
What is life, liberty, and property?
200
Government non-intervention in economy
What is laissez-faire?
200
The restricting access to ideas or information.
What is censorship?
200
He thought the state must have a central authority to manage its citizens.
Who is Thomas Hobbes?
200
Known as "Age of Reason"
What is the Enlightenment?
200
Three branches of government that should function to balance one another
What is executive, legislative, and judicial?
300
He argued government had duty to protect society, administer justice, and provide public works.
Adam Smith
300
Enlightened thinkers
Who are the philosophes?
300
Argued women are not naturally inferior to men; they just suffer from lack of educational opportunities
Who is Mary Wollencraft?
300
Author of the work, Two Treaties of Government
Who is John Locke?
300
Founder of the study of economics, wrote Wealth of Nations
Who is Adam Smith?
400
Economic policy that was favored by monarchs.
What is mercantilism?
400
The branches of government associated with separation of powers.
What are the executive, judicial and legislative?
400
Stated "I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend, to the death, your right to say it."
Who is Voltaire?
400
Allowing the practice of religions, without any interference
What is religious toleration?
400
Author of The Social Contract which suggests citizens have a right to change their form of government
Who is Jean Jacques Rousseau?
500
Economic system where government decides what, how, whom and when to produce. Example is China.
Who is a Command economy?
500
Looked for natural laws to define a rational economic system.
Who are the physiocrats?
500
Believed if government did not do its job people had the right to rebel.
Who is Rousseau?
500
Author of, The Spirit of Laws
Who is Baron von Montesquieu?
500
Proposed deism, the idea that God set the universe in motion to run according to natural laws
Who is Voltaire?