Jason and Abdul graduated from the same are traffic control institute and both applied for a job as an air traffic controller at a private American airport. Despite both having similar profiles, Jason was hired but Abdul was not, and the airport continued to look for other potential air traffic controllers. In this case, Abdul was a possible victim of

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.