What is one of the reasons that those who score highest on the "pleasant life," without comparable scores on either the "good life" and/or the "meaningful life," tend to be less happy? a. One’s sense of pleasure varies extensively over the life course. b. Pleasurable feelings do not last long and habituate quickly. c. High scores of all three require multitasking. d. The sense of pleasure can always be improved or strengthened.

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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.