. WILL GIVE Which is an example of an environment shaping a culture?

1 Western Europe, a farming culture, was once covered with forests before people
needed land for farms.

2 The western United States and much of the Middle East have similar dry climates.

3 Middle Eastern farmers use brick irrigation channels, and American farmers use more modern irrigation systems.

4 Japan’s warm, moist climate lends itself to rice farming, the nation’s main crop; rice is eaten at nearly every meal.

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.