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Transcribed Image Text:2. Which of the following two statements involves positive economic analysis and which
normative? How do the two kind of analysis differ;
Petrol rationing (allocating to each individual a maximum amount of gasoline that can be
purchased each year) is poor social policy because it interferes with the workings of the
i.
competitive market
ii. Petrol rationing is a policy under which more people are made worse off than are made
better off
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