Published July 21, 2020
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Note: The quiz has five questions. Each has two options one true and other false.

Given below are the major contributions of some well known a economists

Question 1:-

Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences for his contributions to welfare economics and social choice theory and for his interest in the problems of society’s poorest members

A- Amartya sen

B-Muhammad Yunus

Question 2:-

Analysis of consumption, poverty, and welfare. To design an economic policy that promotes welfare and reduces poverty,

A-Daniel Kahneman

B-Sir Angus Deaton

Question 3-

An approach of the randomised controlled trial to test the effectiveness of various policy interventions to alleviate poverty

A-Abhijeet Banerjee

B-Raghuram Rajan

Question 4:-

Decision making in corporate financing and predicting a financial crisis at an annual gathering of economists and bankers in the US in 2005

A-Raghuram Rajan

B-Richard H. Thaler

Question 5:-

Psychologically realistic assumptions into analyses of economic decision-making. By exploring the consequences of limited rationality, social preferences, and lack of self-control

A- Daniel Kahneman

B-Richard H. Thaler

Explanation

Question 1:-A

Explanation:-

Social choice theory is the study of collective decision processes and procedures. It is not a single theory, but a cluster of models and results concerning the aggregation of individual inputs (e.g., votes, preferences, judgments, welfare) into collective outputs (e.g., collective decisions, preferences, judgments, welfare).

Question 2:-B

Explanation:-

Angus Deaton has examined the consumption of individuals how this relates to economic development in society at large.

Question 3:-A

Explanation:-

A study design that randomly assigns participants into an experimental group or a control group. As the study is conducted, the only expected difference between the control and experimental groups in a randomized controlled trial

Question 4:-A

Explanation:-

Raghuram Govinda Rajan  is an Indian economist and the Katherine Dusak Miller Distinguished Service Professor of Finance at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business

Question 5:-B

Explanation:-

A relatively new field that bridges the gap between economics and psychology. Thaler’s research investigates the implications of relaxing the standard economic assumption that everyone in the economy is rational and selfish, instead of entertaining the possibility that some of the agents in the economy are sometimes human. (Nudge theory).