By Providing Free Garbage Removal, a Community

question 35

Multiple Choice

By providing free garbage removal, a community

• A)discourages activities that produce detrimental externalities.
• B)disincentivizes citizens from recycling.
• C)leads citizens to throw out less garbage than is socially optimal.
• D)raises the opportunity cost of recycling.

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Definitions:

Mental Sets

The tendency to approach problems in a certain way due to past experiences, even when a different approach might be more productive.

Heuristics

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Algorithms

A set of rules or instructions typically used in computer programming and mathematics to perform calculations or problem-solving operations.

Phonemes

The basic distinctive units of sound in a language that distinguish one word from another, for example, the sounds /p/, /b/, /d/, and /t/ in the English words "pad", "bat", "bad", and "tap".