Externalities Consist of ___________________

question 16

Multiple Choice

Externalities consist of ___________________.

• A)only external costs
• B)only external benefits
• C)both external costs and external benefits

Distinguish between economic profit, normal profit, and loss scenarios for competitive firms.

Understand the concept of optimal allocation of scarce resources in a purely competitive industry.

Describe conditions for long-run equilibrium in a purely competitive firm.

Identify the features indicating productive efficiency and allocative efficiency in pure competition.

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Definitions:

Supreme Court

The highest federal court in the United States, serving as the ultimate arbiter of legal and constitutional disputes.

Segregation

The mandatory division of various ethnic groups within a nation, community, or institution.

Jim Crow

Laws and practices in the United States that enforced racial segregation and discrimination against African Americans from the late 19th century into the 1960s.

Thurgood Marshall

The first African American Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, serving from 1967 to 1991, known for his advocacy for civil rights and his victory in Brown v. Board of Education.