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newbem · **on:** Jun 29, 2018

What is the basic criticism that economic theory levels against the movement to base wages on the comparable worth of jobs?

A) Markets, not employers, set wage rates for different jobs.
B) There are no jobs that are inherently more suitable for women than for men.
C) There is no way to compare the satisfactions that different people derive from a job.
D) Wage rates determine the worth of workers to an employer by determining the number that will be hired.
E) Wage rates will be set by supply and demand and cannot be changed by anything government does.

Question 2

The economic way of thinking asserts, as a universal claim, that

A) politicians are immoral.
B) voters are immoral.
C) morals don't matter in politics.
D) all of the above are true.
E) none of the above are true.