Exam LSAT Section 1 Logical Reasoning topic 1 question 384 discussion

Actual exam question from Test Prep's LSAT Section 1 Logical Reasoning

Question #: 384
Topic #: 1

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Some government economists view their home countries as immune to outside influence. But economies are always open systems; international trade significantly affects prices and wages. Just as physicists learned the shortcomings of a mechanics based on idealizations such as the postulation of perfectly frictionless bodies, government economists must look beyond national borders if their nations' economies are to prosper.
The argument's conclusion follows logically if which one of the following is assumed?

A. A national economy cannot prosper unless every significant influence on it has been examined by that nation's government economists.
B. Economics is weakly analogous to the physical sciences.
C. Economic theories relying on idealizations aregenerally less accurate than economic theories that do not rely on idealizations.
D. International trade is the primary significant variable influencing prices and wages.
E. Some government economists have been ignoring the effects of international trade on prices and wages.

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Suggested Answer: A 🗳️
Why must government economists reach out and look to international trade for a countrys prosperity? Why is that a necessity? Because no economy is an island
"immune to outside influence";international trade has a significant impact. Maybe so, but the argument only works if the author assumes that anything that has a significant impact on prosperity has to be examined by the economists. If A. is false, if an economy can prosper without all of its major influences coming under the government economists scrutiny, then the need expressed by the conclusion is in serious doubt.

by [deleted] at March 9, 2025, 1:47 p.m.

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