Describe Encounter Groups

question 37

Essay

Describe encounter groups. List some of the uses of such groups.

Understand the distinctions among private goods, public goods, common resources, and artificially scarce goods based on their characteristics of excludability and rivalry in consumption.

Identify examples of private goods, public goods, common resources, and artificially scarce goods.

Explain the free-rider problem and how it influences the provision of public goods.

Recognize the inefficiencies in resource allocation associated with common resources and public goods.