In this task you will be given a text passage from a trivia quiz. You should choose the category this question belongs to from these categories: History, Science, Social Science, Fine Arts, Literature. You can only choose one category, so if in doubt, please choose the closest match.

[EX Q]: This man repudiated the Walrasian school after he published a work critical of the marginal productivity theory of distribution. In his magnum opus, he argued that actions are based on illogical decisions called "residues" and are justified by "derivations. " In additio to writing Cours d'economie politique and Mind and Society, his collaborative work with Francis Edgeworth resulted in the indifference curve, and he is also the namesake of a distribution, which leads to the conclusion that 80% of the outcome can be attributed to 20% of the causes. For 10 points, identify this economist, who also names a condition where no person can be made better of without making anybody worse off.
[EX A]: Social Science

[EX Q]: Bloodstone, agate, and onyx are chalcedonic varieties of this mineral. Other color variations arise from substituting atoms for silicon; iron for citrine and amethysts, titanium for the rose variety. When cemented it makes sandstone and when fused, silica glass. For ten points, identify this mineral composed of crystalline silicon dioxide.
[EX A]: Science

[EX Q]: This work compares being "in a slough of foul and filthy lusts" to being "kept down by the lusts of an unclean swine" in showing that unrighteousness degrades humanity. A Latin pun along the lines of "The sole power which can see all is justly to be called the solar" is used to illustrate the power of God in a section that ends asking "Why do ye sluggards turn your backs When the earth is overcome, the stars are yours. " One figure claims the siren Fortune has "preserved her own constancy by her very change. " It opens with the title figure angrily asking "Who has suffered these seducing mummers to approach this sick man" when she sees the Muse of poetry encouraging the narrator to write gloomy songs. The narrator bewails how he saved Paulinus and Albinus and opened himself to the persecutions of Conigastus and Trigulla, favorites of Theodoric. Written during its author's imprisonment in 524, for 10 points, name this work of Boethius.
[EX A]:
Social Science