A Modern Example of Privatizing a Common Resource Is

question 58

Multiple Choice

A modern example of privatizing a common resource is:

• A) patents.
• B) quotas.
• C) taxes.
• D) subsidies.

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Definitions:

MRP

Acronym for Marginal Revenue Product, which measures the addition to total revenue resulting from the sale of the output produced by one more unit of a variable input.

Haircuts

Often used as an example in economics, referring to a service that cannot be stored, saved, or inventoried, and must be consumed at the point of production.

MRP

Material Requirements Planning, a planning and inventory control system used to manage manufacturing processes.

Purely Competitive

A market structure characterized by many buyers and sellers, where each seller offers a homogeneous product and no single buyer or seller can influence the market price.