What Is Not a Benefit from the Lower Costs of Transportation

question 22

Multiple Choice

What is not a benefit from the lower costs of transportation that were achieved through advances in railroads,canals and steamboats?

• A)Free rider problems were reduced.
• B)Farmers gained larger shares of the selling price of their crops.
• C)Consumers paid decreasing shares of the purchase price for transportation and
• Marketing costs.
• D)New unsettled areas were profitably cleared and added to the nation's
• Economic activity.

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