a comment from 10 lines - 15 to one of the two quotes: "everything is real, it has limits which, if combined, give birth to the illusion of unlimitedness. the universe is real." or "we cannot invent feelings. we can discover and express them, we love and hate them, we can bring them closer to the heart or we can reject them."

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.