Providing Citizens with Enforceable Property Rights to Resources

question 85

Multiple Choice

Providing citizens with enforceable property rights to resources

• A) increases resource conservation and decreases wasteful resource use.
• B) promotes economic prosperity and thus increases demand for environmental quality.
• C) provides people with a strong incentive not to damage the privately owned resources of others.
• D) does all of the above.

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