The Proposition That If Private Parties Can Bargain Without Cost

question 223

Multiple Choice

The proposition that if private parties can bargain without cost over the allocation of resources, they can solve the problem of externalities on their own, is called

• A)the Pigovian theorem.
• B)a corrective tax.
• C)the externality theorem.
• D)the Coase theorem.

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