Task 8. Pick up and write down all the international words you can find in the text.

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Task 6. Read the text “Hryhoriy Tsekhanovetskyy” and translate it.

Task 7. Find answers to the following questions in the text and write them down:

1. What was H. Tsekhanovetskyy?

2. Where did he get his education?

3. What was H. Tsekhanovetskyy's contribution to the study of the history of economic thought in Ukraine?

4. What did H. Tsekhanovetskyy analyze in the monograph on Adam Smith?

5. Was H. Tsekhanovetskyy in favour of the ideas by A. Smith?

6. Which of them did he attack? Why?

7. What was H. Tsekhanovetskyy's approach to the study of economics?

8. How did he argue his point of view?

Task 9. Say whether the following statements are true or false. If a statement is false, correct it using information from the text:

1. H. Tsekhanovetskyy was a representativeof the classical school of economics in Ukraine.

2. From 1873 until his death he was a professor of economics at Kharkiv University.

3. Under his guidance, a number of students at Kyiv University worked for their Master's and Doctoral degrees.

4. H.Tsekhanovetskyy published many scientific works.

5. H.Tsekhanovetskyy supported all the ideas of A. Smith.

6. H. Tsekhanovetskyy criticised Smith's generalisationof human behaviour.

7. A. Smith's idea that unrestricted human behaviour toward self-improvement would lead at the same time to the benefit of all appears to H. Tsekhanovetskyy also to be susceptibleto criticism.

8. H. Tsekhanovetskyy accepted complete non-intervention of the government in economic life.

9. He was against the various proposals of mercantilists, protectio­nists and socialists who wished to make government responsible for all or for most economic decisions.

10. H. Tsekhanovetskyy stated that historical approach in economics was like anatomy and physiology in medicine.

11. According to H. Tsekhanovetskyy, political economy and other social sciences rejected the historical method.