The Socially Optimal Amount of Pollution Abatement Occurs Where Society's

question 213

Multiple Choice

The socially optimal amount of pollution abatement occurs where society's marginal

• A) benefit of abatement exceeds its marginal cost of abatement by the greatest amount.
• B) benefit of abatement equals its marginal cost of abatement.
• C) benefit of abatement is zero.
• D) cost of abatement is at its maximum.

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