Answer:
A. Northern European countries provide health care for all citizens.
The answer should be something like this:
how best to allocate scarce resources among competing uses.
Antitrust laws generally promote (or encourage, make possible, increase support, etc) competition - they work against establishing monopolies
Patents limit (decrease, make impossible, etc,) competition - they establish a monopoly on a certain good or service.
The first great boom in the West was spurred by: c. mining
This came from their discovery of silver and gold.
Answer: I'm not entirely sure, but I know it helped them want to establish a democracy where the people chose their leaders.