Regardless of Who Has the Property Rights to Environmental Resources

question 24

Multiple Choice

Regardless of who has the property rights to environmental resources

• A) net social gains are the same independent of who holds the property rights to pollute.
• B) net social gains differ depending upon who holds the property rights to pollute
• C) net gains accumulate to individuals, not society.
• D) a socially efficient equilibrium offers no net gains because MAC will equal MD.

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