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A pareto optimal outcome is always one of the fair outcomes for the group   false  
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A pareto optimal outcome is a situation where no one is hurt and at least someone is helped   true  
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A pareto optimal outcome is one of the outcomes where, for the group: total cost=total benefit   false  
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Transitivity is needed to secure the meaning of 'rational individuals choose what is better'   true  
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Transitivity is needed to secure the meaning to 'rational individuals reject what is worse'   true  
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Transitivity is needed to define public goods   false  
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For individuals to maximize their individual welfare, at the level they must buy where total benefit and total cost lines must cross   false  
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For individuals to maximize their individual welfare, at the level they must buy where total cost and marginal cost lines must cross   false  
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For individuals to maximize their individual welfare, at the level they must buy where marginal cost and net benefit lines must cross   false  
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For individuals to maximize their individual welfare, at the level they must buy where marginal benefit and marginal cost lines must cross   true  
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For individuals to maximize their individual welfare, at the level they must buy where total benefit and total cost lines must be parallel   true  
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For individuals to maximize their individual welfare, at the level they must buy where the vertical distance between total cost and toal benefit must be maximized   true  
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For individuals to maximize their individual welfare, at the level they must buy where marginal benefit and marginal cost must be parallel   false  
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For individuals to maximize their individual welfare, at the level they must buy where total cost and marginal cost must be parallel   false  
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For individuals to maximize their individual welfare, at the level they must buy where marginal cost and net benefit must be parallel   false?  
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The expected value of an item is the sum of the probabilities of getting an item times the value of the outcome   false ?  
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The expected value of an item is yet another way of defining the basis of rational choice   true  
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The expected value of an item is a way of calculating what is ones best choice   true  
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prisoner dilemma games are games where the predicted outcome from individuals choices is suboptimal   true  
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prisoner dilemma games are games with no more than two persons   false  
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prisoner dilemma games are games with dominant strategies   true  
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Individual optimality can result when the lines for total benefits and total costs has equal slopes   false  
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Individual optimality can result when the lines for total benefits and total costs cross   false  
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Individual optimality can result when the lines for total benefits and total costs are a maximum distance apart   true  
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Individual optimality results when total costs are minimized   true  
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Individual optimality results when total benefits are maximized   true  
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The iron law of oligarchy is that all political leaders are self interested   true  
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The iron law of oligarchy is that one can never overcome the oppresion of the oligarchs   false  
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The iron law of oligarchy is that a law defined by oligarchs will never represent the interests of the masses   false  
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The iron law of oligarchy is that any effort at maintaining a democratic organization will tend to end up with all the power in the hands of a few   false ?  
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Public goods are good which are always supplied by the government   false  
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Public goods are good which are usually not available in the market   true  
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Public goods are good which are suboptimally supplied in unorganized groups   true  
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Public goods are good which are often require independent incentives to get resources allocated toward their supply   true  
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probability is always a number between one and ten   false  
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probability has a specific and definable relationship to "odds"   true  
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Net benefit is represented by the difference in the vertical heights of the marginal and total cost benefit curves   true  
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Net benefit is represented by the difference in the vertical heights of the total cost and total benefit curves   false  
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When plunkitt used the phrase 'honest graft' he refered to raising campaign funds by philadelphia republicans   false  
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When plunkitt used the phrase 'honest graft' he refered to lobbbying a congressman in washington   false?  
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When plunkitt used the phrase 'honest graft' he refered to seeing your opportunities and taking them   true  
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morning glories is a phrase used by michales to represent the beautiful people in the us   false  
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morning glories is a phrase used by michaels to represent the flower children in the us   false  
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morning glories is a phrase used derisively to refer to the weakness of reform groups   true  
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morning glories is a phrase used flatteringly to refere to the strengths of reform groups   false  
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