By 1996, more than half of the population of this country had invested money with the company Populli, which promised monthly returns in excess of 30 percent. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this country that faced the 1997 collapse of pyramid schemes operated by companies such as VEFA, Gjallica (“jah-LEET-suh”) and Kamberi.
ANSWER: Albania [or Republic of Albania; or Shqipëria]
[10h] This scholar, the great-granddaughter of the 10th Prime Minister of Albania, included a diary entry about the Gjallica pyramid scheme in her memoir Free: Coming of Age at the End of History.
ANSWER: Lea Ypi
[10e] In the same year that she published Free, Ypi published a book on “purposiveness of design” in this 1781 work of philosophy, whose second section concerns the “Transcendental Doctrine of Method.”
ANSWER: Critique of Pure Reason [or Kritik der reinen Vernunft; or CPR] (by Immanuel Kant)
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