What can be inferred about long-standing rogue states, such as libya, iraq, and north korea? they failed because the soviet union collapsed, and its financial patronage of rogue satellite states ended. they were successful due to a single leader or dynastic regime maintaining control of the government. they endured despite frequent political unrest, coup attempts, regime changes, and assassinations. they were rich because their oceanfront access to shipping routes allowed merchant fleets to plunder.

Census data is an example of: public information. private behavior. private information. public behavior.

Countries that are neither core nations nor peripheral nations

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.