The Tragedy of the Commons Is the Absence of Incentives

question 28

Multiple Choice

The tragedy of the commons is the absence of incentives to

• A)reduce marginal cost of common resources.
• B)prevent underuse of common resources.
• C)prevent overuse of common resources.
• D)discover new common resources.
• E)export wool in sixteenth-century England.

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