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  The three primary factors of production are  

PERCENTAGES OF WORKERS EMPLOYED IN TEXTILE FACTORIES IN ENGLAND BY AGE AND GENDER, 1835–1867 Year Children (8–12 years) Women (13 years and over) Men (13 years and over) 1835 15.9 47.3 37.7 1838 7.9 54.0 38.1 1847 7.9 54.9 37.2 1850 6.8 55.3 37.7 1856 7.7 56.2 36.1 1861 9.0 55.8 35.2 1867 10.0 56.1 33.8 Source: Data adapted from Clark Nardinelli, “Child Labor and the Factory Acts,” The Journal of Economic History, 40:4 (1980): 744. The data were compiled by British government inspectors who reported their findings to the British Parliament. The data in the table best provide historical context to understand which of the following developments in mid-nineteenth-century Great Britain?

Refer to the following graph for the next five questions.   The opportunity cost of increasing production of consumption from 10 to 15 is ________.  

“Liberty and justice consist of restoring all that belongs to others; thus, the only limits on the exercise of the natural rights of woman are perpetual male tyranny; these limits are to be reformed by the laws of nature and reason.” Olympe de Gouges, French feminist, Declaration of the Rights of Woman and the Female Citizen, 1791 The passage above is an example of which of the following processes occurring in the eighteenth century?

Which of the following most directly explains the importance of improved agricultural productivity to the industrialization of economic production in western Europe in the period 1750–1900 ?

  A person has a comparative advantage in the production of a good when she or he can produce the product at a(n) ________ opportunity cost compared to another person.  

Which of the following was a major reason for the decline in India’s share of the global manufacture of cotton textiles by the end of the nineteenth century?

  Use the concept of incentives to explain how patent and copyright laws promote innovation.  

Which of the following best describes how nineteenth-century European industrialization affected European women’s lives?

“Nobody has one exclusive sphere of activity but each can become accomplished in any branch he wishes, society regulates the general production and thus makes it possible for me to do one thing today and another tomorrow, to hunt in the morning, fish in the afternoon, raise cattle in the evening, [and] criticize after dinner.” Karl Marx, German philosopher, describing his view of life in a communist society, 1846 Marx’s statement in the passage above is best understood in the context of which of the following responses to the development and spread of global capitalism in the nineteenth century?