The CIA admitted to spending $60,000 to topple the government of Iran in 1953.
Can your calculation of the cost to overthrown the Mossedegh government in today's dollars be used to address that question as to whether it was right or wrong to topple a foreign government?
Why or why not?

a. No this is a normative question and the amount of money spent, in either real or nominal terms cannot address this issue

b. Yes, this is a positive question and the cost of overthrowing the government in real terms is important in answering this question

c. No, this type of calculation has no validity in political or moral questions

d. Yes, real calculations address all issues and are better than nominal figures

e. It is impossible to tell

At fenway park, home of the boston red sox, seating is limited to 38,000. hence, the number of tickets issued is fixed at that figure. the following graph shows the demand and supply for red sox tickets. use the graph input tool to you answer the following questions. you will not be graded on any changes you make to this graph. 0 38 76 100 90 80 70 60 50 40 30 20 10 0 price of tickets quantity of tickets (thousands) demand supply graph input tool market for tickets price 10 quantity demanded (thousands of tickets) 68 quantity supplied (thousands of tickets) 38 tax on buyers 0.00 seeing a golden opportunity to raise revenue, the city of boston levies a per ticket tax of $5 to be paid by the ticket buyer. boston sports fans, a famously civic-minded lot, send in the $5 per ticket. true or false: the entire tax burden falls on the team’s owners because supply is perfectly inelastic. true false