Question: Others believed that only total (historical) costs should be used.
Those others were a majority of all people.

Answer: it is not possible to tell

Question: Is there anything this man did not invent?
His inventions were patented.

Answer: it is not possible to tell

Question: Hemingway's favorite old hangout, the romantically overgrown island of Torcello, beyond Burano, is one of the lagoon's oldest inhabited spots, very proserous until emptied by a malaria epidemic.
Torcello survived an epidemic and later enjoyed a flourishing economy.

Answer:
no