When Natural Resources Are Not Traded, or Where Markets Are

question 83

Multiple Choice

When natural resources are not traded, or where markets are not allowed to function as well as they can under a system of well-defined property rights, the problems of ____ and ____ are common.

• A) higher taxes; increased regulation
• B) waste; scarcity
• C) inflation; unemployment
• D) slow growth; fluctuating currency values

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Definitions:

Isotope

An isotope refers to one of two or more forms of an element with the same number of protons but a different number of neutrons in the nucleus, resulting in different atomic masses but similar chemical properties.

Element

A substance consisting of atoms which all have the same number of protons, fundamentally the simplest substances that cannot be broken down using chemical methods.

Isotope

Variants of a particular chemical element that differ in neutron number, and consequently in nucleon number, but have the same number of protons.

Protons

Positively charged particles located in the nucleus of an atom, contributing to the atom's mass and charge.