TEST BANK
The Geography of the World
Economy, 6th Edition by Paul Knox
Complete Chapter Test Bank
are included (Ch 1 to 13)
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** Swift Response
** All Chapters included
,Table of Contents are given below
1. The Changing World Economy
2. Global Patterns and Trends
3. Geographical Dynamics of the World Economy
4. Pre-industrial Foundations
5. Evolution of the Core Regions
6. Globalization of Economic Activities
7. Spatial Reorganization of the Core Economies
8. Dynamics of Interdependence: Transformation of the Periphery
9. Agriculture: The Primary Concern
10. Industrialization: The Path to Progress?
11. Services: Going Global?
12. International and Supranational Institutionalized Integration
13. Reassertion of the Local in the Age of the Global: Regions and
Localities Within the World Economy
, The test bank is organized in reverse order, with the last chapter displayed first, to ensure that all
chapters are included in this document. (Complete Chapters included Ch13-1)
CH 13 6e
1 Regional planning has been in retreat in core countries since the 1970s. Why is this so?
(A) no longer engages with the reality of cross-regional linkages
(B) entirely reflects declining government spending
(C) is no longer needed
(D) regional incentives never worked
Answer: (A) no longer engages with the reality of cross-regional linkages
2 Economic globalization has encouraged the growth of ethnic conflict and nationalist
separatism by:
(A) making control over localities and regions more feasible economically
(B) encouraging new political identities
(C) frustrating central governments
(D) stimulating the desire to exercise more control over local and regional economies
Answer: (D) stimulating the desire to exercise more control over local and regional economies
3 Clustering of firms in local industrial districts in some countries has been prompted mainly
by:
(A) big firms contracting out production to small firms
(B) small firms being more responsive to shifts in demand
(C) a shift from mass to customized production
(D) a and c above
Answer: (D) a and c above
4 The trend in employment in many core countries is for larger factories to:
(A) employ ever larger numbers of workers
(B) employ a shrinking overall proportion of workers
(C) employ much the same proportion as in the past
(D) employ a shrinking proportion even as large firms retain ownership over the smaller factories
Answer: (D) employ a shrinking proportion even as large firms retain ownership over the smaller
factories
5 What is often meant by “economic democracy”?
(A) state control of business
(B) electorates vote on economic policies
(C) businesses are organized as cooperatives by those who work in them
(D) the withdrawal of state regulation
Answer: (C) businesses are organized as cooperatives by those who work in them
The Geography of the World
Economy, 6th Edition by Paul Knox
Complete Chapter Test Bank
are included (Ch 1 to 13)
** Immediate Download
** Swift Response
** All Chapters included
,Table of Contents are given below
1. The Changing World Economy
2. Global Patterns and Trends
3. Geographical Dynamics of the World Economy
4. Pre-industrial Foundations
5. Evolution of the Core Regions
6. Globalization of Economic Activities
7. Spatial Reorganization of the Core Economies
8. Dynamics of Interdependence: Transformation of the Periphery
9. Agriculture: The Primary Concern
10. Industrialization: The Path to Progress?
11. Services: Going Global?
12. International and Supranational Institutionalized Integration
13. Reassertion of the Local in the Age of the Global: Regions and
Localities Within the World Economy
, The test bank is organized in reverse order, with the last chapter displayed first, to ensure that all
chapters are included in this document. (Complete Chapters included Ch13-1)
CH 13 6e
1 Regional planning has been in retreat in core countries since the 1970s. Why is this so?
(A) no longer engages with the reality of cross-regional linkages
(B) entirely reflects declining government spending
(C) is no longer needed
(D) regional incentives never worked
Answer: (A) no longer engages with the reality of cross-regional linkages
2 Economic globalization has encouraged the growth of ethnic conflict and nationalist
separatism by:
(A) making control over localities and regions more feasible economically
(B) encouraging new political identities
(C) frustrating central governments
(D) stimulating the desire to exercise more control over local and regional economies
Answer: (D) stimulating the desire to exercise more control over local and regional economies
3 Clustering of firms in local industrial districts in some countries has been prompted mainly
by:
(A) big firms contracting out production to small firms
(B) small firms being more responsive to shifts in demand
(C) a shift from mass to customized production
(D) a and c above
Answer: (D) a and c above
4 The trend in employment in many core countries is for larger factories to:
(A) employ ever larger numbers of workers
(B) employ a shrinking overall proportion of workers
(C) employ much the same proportion as in the past
(D) employ a shrinking proportion even as large firms retain ownership over the smaller factories
Answer: (D) employ a shrinking proportion even as large firms retain ownership over the smaller
factories
5 What is often meant by “economic democracy”?
(A) state control of business
(B) electorates vote on economic policies
(C) businesses are organized as cooperatives by those who work in them
(D) the withdrawal of state regulation
Answer: (C) businesses are organized as cooperatives by those who work in them
