All of the following are examples that a liberal might cite of the human costs of the market EXCEPT:
a) One million people died in the Irish Potato Famine that government policy could have alleviated. b) In the 1910s, 25,000 workers were killed annually on the job in the United States. c) In 1985, an earthquake shook Mexico City, and close to 10,000 people died. d) Factories poured their toxic wastes into the nation's water, soil, and air, endangering people's health.
C
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a. lead to a new system of financial governance b. last at least a decade c. destroy the global financial system d. undo most global financial regulations
Microeconomics is concerned with
A. overall management of the economy B. government regulation of specific types of business C. control of the money supply D. management of the national debt