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CAT 2024 Slot 1 RC passage: Economists borrowing from other disciplines
This is passage 2 of the four Reading Comprehension passages in CAT 2024 Slot 1. It comes with 4 questions in the real exam. Below are the question stems; sign in to read the full passage and practise it with all options, the answer key and explanations.
Passage facts
- Exam
- CAT 2024
- Slot
- 1 of 3
- Position
- Passage 2 of 4
- Questions
- 4
- Passage length
- about 510 words
- Topic
- Economists borrowing from other disciplines
Source of the passage: adapted by CAT from Jeremy Adelman, “Economics: Theories vs. Stories”, Public Books. Read the original.
Questions in this set
- In the first paragraph the author is making the point that economists like Becker
- “[sentence quoted from the passage]” We can infer from this statement and the associated paragraph that the author is being
- The author critiques Schiller’s approach to behavioural economics for
- We can infer from the passage that the term ‘‘homo economicus” refers to someone who
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