Craft and StructureHardApplying a principle from one text to a case in another
Craft and Structure practice question
Text 1
Economist Farah Osei warns that when a city offers a subsidy to attract a company, the jobs the company later creates cannot simply be credited to the subsidy: many would have been created somewhere in the city regardless.
Text 2
The city's $40 million grant to the electronics firm was a success, its mayor said, since the firm now employs 800 people at its new plant.
Based on the texts, how would Osei most likely respond to the mayor's claim?
- A. By asking how many of the 800 jobs would have existed in the city without the grant before calling it a success.Correct
- B. By agreeing that 800 jobs justify any subsidy.
- C. By arguing that the plant should be closed.
- D. By claiming that the firm employs no one.
Answer: A. By asking how many of the 800 jobs would have existed in the city without the grant before calling it a success.
Osei's principle: don't credit the subsidy with jobs that would have come anyway.
Why the other answers are wrong
- B. By agreeing that 800 jobs justify any subsidy.
- Osei's warning cuts against automatic credit.
- C. By arguing that the plant should be closed.
- Not proposed.
- D. By claiming that the firm employs no one.
- The 800 jobs are not disputed.
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