Rational Ignorance About the Efficient Quantity of a Public Good

question 84

Multiple Choice

Rational ignorance about the efficient quantity of a public good can result in

• A) excludable goods.
• B) the vertical summation of individual's marginal benefit curves.
• C) the principle of minimum differentiation.
• D) bureaucratic overprovision of a good.

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