The Cost- Benefit Analysis Is Fraught with Difficulty

question 52

Multiple Choice

The cost- benefit analysis is fraught with difficulty:

• A)the best policy is no policy.
• B)because economist have a hard time modelling individuals' behaviour.
• C)externalities cannot be appropriately dealt with in this framework.
• D)because the necessary information is prohibitively costly.

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