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Author: Tucker, Irvin B.
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Identify positive and normative economic statements.
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18. Normative and positive statements
The following table contains statements that provide some analysis of policies that address the minimum wage.
Categorize each of these statements as either positive or normative.
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All Americans should earn more than $25,000 per year.
Raising the minimum wage increases the rate of unemployment.
The minimum wage should be raised to $15 per hour.
Raising the minimum wage reduces the number of employment opportunities for low skilled workers.
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Which of the following two statements involves positive economic analysis and which normative? How do the two kinds of analysis differ?
Statement #1: Gasoline 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 competitive market system.
This statement involves
OA. positive analysis because it states what the effect of gasoline rationing is.
OB. positive analysis because it states what the effect of gasoline rationing is and normative analysis because it makes a value judgment about the desirability of
the rationing policy.
OC. normative analysis because it describes what gasoline policy ought to be.
D. positive analysis because it makes a value judgment.
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