Which of the Following Can Bring About an Efficient Level

question 6

Multiple Choice

Which of the following can bring about an efficient level of public goods being provided by the government?

• A) Free riding on the part of voters.
• B) Competition between political parties trying to win an election.
• C) Voters who do not care about the benefits and costs of public goods.
• D) Rational ignorance on the part of voters.
• E) Self-interest among government bureaucrats.

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Definitions:

Primacy and Recency Effects

Psychological terms describing the tendency to remember information that appears at the beginning (primacy) and end (recency) of a list better than information in the middle.

Memory

The cognitive process of encoding, storing, and retrieving information.

Retrieval

The process of accessing and bringing into conscious awareness information stored in memory.

Stored Information

Information that is retained in the brain or another storage system for retrieval and use at a later time.