Government Intervention Can Be Productive and Efficiency Enhancing

question 70

Multiple Choice

Government intervention can be productive and efficiency enhancing:

• A)whenever the marginal social benefit is positive.
• B)in markets for common resources.
• C)because the government always acts with altruistic motives.
• D)in all markets except those for public goods.

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