Bruce has been smoking since he was 15-years-old. his doctor tells him that he needs to quit for his health. bruce tells the doctor, "look, smoking is the only bad thing i do, and besides, you have to die of something." this best illustrates the use of a defense mechanism known as

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.