When There Are Significant Costs Involved with Coordinating a Private

question 53

Multiple Choice

When there are significant costs involved with coordinating a private solution to an externality:

• A) a leader will likely be elected to organize the coordination.
• B) it can act as a motivating factor to solve the externality problem expediently.
• C) it likely will not happen.
• D) None of these statements is true.

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