During the Great Recession, RGDP fell ______, but during the Great Depression it fell ______.

How is foreign direct investment different from other types of international financial flows?

What will be an ideal response?

Observe the difference in vending machines between canned soda and newspapers. Typically, if you insert coins into a newspaper vending machine and open it you will see available all of the copies of the newspaper within one's reach

However, soda machines are very different. They work such that only one can is dispensed at a time. The rest of the canned soda is well out of reach. Explain in terms of marginal utility why the newspaper distributor is relatively unconcerned about the rest of the newspapers being taken without payment while the soda distributor uses a machine that goes to great lengths to insure that only one can of soda is dispensed at a time.