Question
This thinker argued that rather than following a production function, firms choose from a “book of blueprints” based on the economy-wide rate of profit. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this Marxian economist and Stanford professor who wrote Capital Accumulation and Income Distribution.
ANSWER: Donald Harris (father of Kamala Harris)
[10m] This other father of a politician is a founding member and president of the International Gramsci Society. This philosopher popularized Gramsci’s “Open Marxism” in America by translating the Prison Notebooks into English.
ANSWER: Joseph Buttigieg
[10e] This former president described reading Marx and Marcuse as a student at Occidental College so he “had something to say to the long-legged socialist who lived in [his] dorm” in his memoir A Promised Land.
ANSWER: Barack Obama [or Barack Hussein Obama II]
<FW, Philosophy (Contemporary)>
Data
Summary
| Tournament | Edition | Exact Match? | Heard | PPB | Easy % | Medium % | Hard % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 RMP Fest Online Mirror | 05/31/25 | Y | 5 | 16.00 | 100% | 60% | 0% |
| 2025 RMP Fest Carleton Mirror | 07/13/25 | Y | 3 | 20.00 | 100% | 100% | 0% |
| 2025 RMP Fest CO Mirror | 08/10/25 | Y | 6 | 20.00 | 100% | 83% | 17% |