What Is the Most Prominent Rationing Device You Will Likely

question 53

Multiple Choice

What is the most prominent rationing device you will likely find at your campus bookstore?

• A) dollar price
• B) brute force
• C) anti-theft tags on the high-priced items
• D) none of the above

Understand how different types of goods are managed or provided in society.

Understand the distinctions among private goods, public goods, common resources, and artificially scarce goods based on their characteristics of excludability and rivalry in consumption.

Identify examples of private goods, public goods, common resources, and artificially scarce goods.

Explain the free-rider problem and how it influences the provision of public goods.

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