1. Which situation is likely to occur in a pure command economy? A There is free trade between businesses.
B There are strong private property protections.
C There are few obstacles to starting businesses.
D The government sets production quotas for goods.

Mankiw attributes – chapter 1 and his 10 principles – differences in living standards within a countryover time and across countries at a moment in time to: a. the presence or absence of inflation and unemployment.b. the allocation of resources between private markets and the public sector.c. those that have dealt successfully with the efficiency v. equality tradeoff and those that haven’t.d. differences in productivity.e. ones that think at the margin and respond to incentives and those that don’t.