Consider a Remote Village with a Limited,freely Available Water Supply

question 17

Multiple Choice

Consider a remote village with a limited,freely available water supply and no government intervention in the allocation of water.In economics,the resulting outcome of a situation such as this is often referred to as

• A)adverse selection.
• B)the tragedy of the commons.
• C)the Coase theorem.
• D)moral hazard.
• E)asymmetric information.

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