<span>Although a profitable surplus of products was maintained, money was as scarce in the colonies as it was in England. Whenever gold or silver was earned from exported products, it had to be sent to England to pay debts or to import needed goods. This produced an environment where money was scarce even despite the decent profit earned from crops.</span>
The approach that Mr. McKay is using in the setting is the
problem based learning. The PBL or the Problem based learning is defined as a
student centered pedagogy by which students are likely to learn a particular subject
based from the experience of having to solve open ended problem found in a
material that triggers it.
"when a profit-maximizing firm in a competitive market has zero economic profit, accounting profit"
The answer is positive.
