Why were many westward trails and settlements located along or near bodies of water or river ways

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.

Using mr smith and his id, identify two potential internal validity threats that might affect the a—b design. tell me how that threat might impact conclusions in the a—b design. note #1: you cannot use maturation (since i already did that one for note #2: there are some mr smith id threats that won’t have much impact in a single case design.

Describe the relationship between population growth consumption and the environment.