How does a capitalist increase surplus value?

By increasing the value of the product without compensating laborers

What is NOT a goal of capitalism?

Provide each indiviual with necessary commodities

What does world-systems analysis try to explain?

Connections between capitalism and social systems

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1
How does a capitalist increase surplus value?
By decreasing the value of the product and compensating laborers
By decreasing the amount of labor needed to create the product
By increasing the value of the product without compensating laborers
By increasing the hours of laborers to produce more product
2
Which is a charcteristic of a core country?
Exports products for sale
Exports labor to other countries
Exports raw materials
Imports commodities from other nations
3
Which Spanish colonialist economic system consited of debt peonage?
Repartmiento
Mita
Hacienda
Encomienda
4
Which could NOT be considered a commodity?
Water
Food
Air
Shelter
5
What region do the Ayoreo live?
Gran Chaco
Cerro Rico de Potosi
Amazon Bason
The Andes
6
What kind of leader do the Ayoreo have?
An elder
A chief
An emperor
A headman
7
Which was NOT a driving factor for Spanish colonialism?
Spread Christianity
Gain material wealth
Increase global social standing
Explore unknown lands
8
Which is NOT a feature of Ayoreo kinship?
Teknonymy
Monogamy
Ranked clans
Matrilineal
9
How have the subsistence startegies of the Ayoreo changed?
Peasant agriculture to foraging
Pastoralism with peccary to industrial agriculture
Slash and burn to peasant ariculture
Foraging to horticulture
10
What is NOT a goal of capitalism?
Provide each indiviual with necessary commodities
Increase surplus value
Ensure means of production are privately owned
Create wealth through sale of goods/services
11
What does world-systems analysis try to explain?
Connections between multiculturalism and economics
Connections between colonialism and capitalism
Connections between modernization and social systems
Connections between capitalism and social systems
12
Which is a characteristic of a periphery country?
High labor exploitation
High wages
Low labor exploitation
High technology
13
What is the the exchange value of a commodity based on?
Socially necessary labor time
Rareness of the commodity
Use-value
Surplus value

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