The mayor of gotham city, worried about a potential epidemic of deadly influenza this winter, asks an economic adviser. determine whether a question requires the economic adviser to make a positive assessment or a normative assessment.
a. how much vaccine will be in stock in the city by the end of november? b. if we offer to pay 10% more per dose to the pharmaceutical companies providing the vaccines, will they provide additional doses? c. if there is a shortage of vaccine in the city, whom should we vaccinate first—the elderly or the very young? d. if the city charges $25 per shot, how many people will pay? e. if the city charges $25 per shot, it will make a profit of $10 per shot, money that can go to pay for inoculating poor people. should the city engage in such a scheme?

Why is investing in a mutual fund less risky than investing in a particular company’s stock?

Almeda products, inc., uses a job-order costing system. the company's inventory balances on april 1, the start of its fiscal year, were as follows:

Suppose that the u.s. dollars-mexican pesos exchange rate is fixed by the u.s. and mexican governments. assume also that labor is mobile between the united states and mexico due to low transportation costs.which of the following situations is likely to happen as a result of a simultaneous increase in the demand for u.s. goods and decrease in the demand for mexican goods? (pick mexican unemployment rate increases, and the country undergoes bad economic times for a sustained u.s. unemployment rate increases, and the country undergoes bad economic times for a sustained mexican unemployment rate rises at first, but it soon drops as unemployed mexicans move to the united states for mexican unemployment rate rises at first, but then it drops as mexican pesos depreciate against u.s. dollars.